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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Very rare case.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Very rare case.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. We were up against a tight deadline where we actually had to invent a business and present to our classmates at school!” Write it down on a napkin. Adi’s advice.

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How Long Should It Take For a Startup to Succeed?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Very rare case.

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Can You Beat Amazon In The Race To Overnight Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Very rare case.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The name is a bit misleading - you don't actually have to be young, but your project does. Among other activities and programs, Silicon Sentier runs La Cantine , a coworking center, hip geek hangout and bustling hub for Paris tech events and activities: barcamps, workshops, competitions, launch parties, press conferences - you name it.

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