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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college.

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The Future of Web Startups

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We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. New Attitude to Acquisition Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions. One problem theyve solved is how to think about acquisitions. For most companies, acquisitions still carry some stigma of inadequacy.

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