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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the consequences of premature government regulation of AI and why the incumbents are all for it. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. In the U.S. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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[Review] Good To Great

YoungUpstarts

To do so, it is suggested that companies can form a council comprising the leading executive and between 5 to 12 key members of the management. He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. b) Good-to-great companies adopt the Hedgehog Concept (i.e.

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How To Run A GDPR Gap Analysis For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

For example, you could get your gap analysis done as well as data-breach monitoring and third-party management tools. Risk management – Next up you need to decide whether you have adequate risk management practises. For example, DIY will differ from hiring in a dedicated consultant.

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How did Jeff Bezos scale Amazon without destroying its entrepreneurial culture?

Version One Ventures

But as a start-up scales, founders can’t have their hands in everything: many companies lose focus on the customer; decisions get bogged down; and there are hiring mistakes. Amazon has a unique product development process: before starting any new project, the product manager writes an internal press release ‘announcing’ the product.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

As part of their book campaign, Brant and Patrick have teamed up with General Assembly to offer 4 free online video classes, including: Lean UX Research Techniques - Rapid Prototyping - How to Hire Developers - Growth Hacking Every book pre-order get access to all of these classes - and quite a bit more.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

As people get more and more used to piloting, they will start to ask themselves “why wait until the last minute?&# (See Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter Drucker for more on this thesis.) In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion.

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