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You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur

Steve Blank

Once they found a profitable business model they realized that scale required external venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. With venture capital came accountability to board members, forecasts, and other people’s agendas. Success for this new division meant generating substantial revenue and profit for company.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Consider these facts: Start by poring over the data compiled by Jay Ritter at the University of Florida. If you add in 7% banker IPO fee, that represents a 55% cost of capital (for an entire year worth of IPOs, count 165). It took courage for Zach Nelson and the team at Netsuite to also use a Dutch Auction in 2007.

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