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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between [.] [.]

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. By then it was too late. Our market share was starting to climb. What did I learn so far?

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Tags: socalcto startupcto. Click to email him. Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg. All Rights Reserved.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

This includes investors, entrepreneurs, people who work in similar areas, friends, people on the street, the bartender, etc. You might even discover your idea is a bad idea and save yourself years of hitting your head against the wall. My answer: you should talk about it to almost anyone who will listen. link] Twitted by diego_s. [.]

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Greed is Good

Altgate

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged business , government , greed , wall street. But I think a lot of the morals of that film have stood the test of time. The most memorable scene has Michael Douglas (aka Gordon Gekko) saying: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Bookmark the permalink.

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White Collar Crime Spree

Altgate

The 70 year old “lion&# of Wall Street is arrested after confessing to what the SEC describes as a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. He is apparently the sole equity owner of this 250 attorney firm and reportedly spent $40 million on artwork hanging on the law office walls. Bernie Madoff. Come again? Rod Blagojevich.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Wall Street wants quarterly earnings. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.] General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. CEO’s and the executive staff are watching the corporate bottom line and earnings per share.