Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Seth’s role there was to perform audits; prepare tax returns for Corporations, S-Corps, LLC’s, Partnerships; and bankruptcy compilation work for SEC reporting and litigation.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

While too fresh on America’s mind to endure the heartbreak of a Bernie Madoff movie, the ugly side of the business world makes great cinematic fodder. In 2000, the 22,000 people on staff at Enron could be proud: they were spending their days at one of Fortune ‘s “100 Best Companies to Work For in America.”

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

You’ll be able to think through your assumptions, what you think you can charge for your product or services, and what you think it’s going to cost, and then you’ll be able to see the bottom line. If you were to say, who is the target market for Crocs, in America? Are you going to make money?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ultimately, finding a low-cost, repeatable way to show customers how to be successful with your solution is as important as the solution itself. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I just finished reading this sobering account of California's municipal economic woes written by Michael Lewis--an account of a society completely unwilling to self-regulate, and on a straight path to financial and cultural bankruptcy. Every pastry chef in America understands this, and now neuroscience does, too.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Our calculations had us losing money on the two lowest cost boards, breaking even on the third and making great margins on the other six. As customers saw them, they were a new family of products aimed directly at the color desktop publishing market with astonishing performance and a low-cost entry price.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

They each cost around $5,000 and there isn’t a huge market for them, but some die-hard fans have purchased them and Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell was buried in one. Sadly, none of her ideas were realized and she ended up selling the town in 1993 and filing for bankruptcy. Kim Basinger’s town. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 12, 2020

His business record was a chaotic saga of betrayed partners , conned customers , harmed shareholders , a string of bankruptcies , and then that long second-act pivot to reality TV. What price would America pay if we elected a gameshow host as our president? Four years later, the costs of Trump compound on a daily basis.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 21, 2020

The six bankruptcies. As America endures week after week of 1000-plus COVID-19 deaths a day, we still have higher unemployment numbers than we’ve had in 70 years. “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he runs his business,” Mayor Bloomberg said then. God help us.”. He knew where we were headed because he knew Trump’s history.

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