Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue. Board Control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

As opposed to a startup incubator, which typically deals with startups barely hatched, an accelerator focuses on a later stage startup, with an existing product and proven business model, looking for rapid growth. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. I started my business with my fiancé because of our combined skills and experiences. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Image Credit: Nina Noelle Holmes. Thanks to Artur Sousa, Adopt Pets ! #28

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. In those days you could go public as adogfood portal, so as a company with a real product and real revenues,we might have done well.

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