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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. Wide Adoption. Visibility.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

How much change will you demand? I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. Is it ongoing?

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. annual GMV.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. On Dan’s Favorite Books.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. How did Akamai do it? . .