Acquisition Cofounder Operations Vertical 
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2021
Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has sardonically noted that the only defense companies to reach unicorn status in the past 30 years have all been founded by billionaires able to endure long gaps in funding. He’s a former U.S.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 17, 2021
Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Co-founders, Laura Maly and Michael Anderson, struck a deal with Galvez that led to the acquisition of Merger Labs , effective January 1, 2018.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.
Transformify
APRIL 21, 2017
I spoke with Toptal Co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val to find out more about how Toptal got started and his predictions for the future of the talent economy. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon. How did you come up with the idea for Toptal? Why did you prioritize finance over another capability?
Ben's Blog
MARCH 1, 2011
Some firms hire pure investors, some firms hire operators, some Wall Street analysts, some firms hire sales people, some firms hire lawyers, and others hire reporters. Two aspects of the original vision that deeply depend on the kind of general partners that we hire are: We will help develop founders into CEOs. A Little Help.
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