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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. If possible, quantify these in non-technical business terms, such as dollars saved or replacement costs over time.

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Steve Blank

And take what it learns and regularly update the corporate engineering, strategy, VC groups and business unit heads, on technology and market shifts. In exchange, the startups provide companies with their disruptive ideas, technologies and business models. Academics, consultants, incubators.

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Entrepreneurs Can Revitalize The Image Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models.

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It’s Time For A New Way Of Thinking About Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models.

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