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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% at United Technologies and 30% at Siemens.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Cloud Computing. (1). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. Cracking The Code on Facebook.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In search of Europes next tech stars. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Cloud Computing. (1). software. (10). internet.