Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And it turns out Frisbie was a pie company in Connecticut, and what the kids did before Netflix and internet and iPhones, they would take empty pie tins and throw them around the quad. And so Brand New Name draws on the ideas of the GV sprint and agile project management. Does that make sense or does that just make it harder?

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