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

Gust

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Nowhere is this more striking than in matters involving intellectual property and the rights of content owners.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Now you go: Name (required). I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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Uber Needs to Transition from “Pirate” to “Navy”

Reid Hoffman

Uber recently named Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. Larry Greiner wrote about precisely this dynamic in Harvard Business Review in 1998: “The critical task for management in each revolutionary period is to find a new set of organizational practices that will become the basis for managing the next period of evolutionary growth.