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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation. These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., This first post will describe some of the structural problems companies have; follow-on posts will offer some solutions. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups.

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Entrepreneurship and Youth Go Hand-in-Hand

Growthink Blog

Some may read the above and shake their heads and think that this is a “coddling mindset” or entitlement culture and is exactly what has gotten America in trouble in the first place and a big part of why China is kicking our you know what every which way.

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This may not be the bubble you’re looking for

VC Adventure

Thought 1: What happens in China isn’t all that important to the US stock market. Yes – China is a large trading partner, but if you look at its effects on the overall US market, we’re not likely to see a large, near-term effect from a drop in either the Chinese stock market or their currency. They’re not.

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What Successful Investors Teach Us About Investing In Startups

YoungUpstarts

Salaries are one item on a company’s balance sheet that catches the attention of some investors. This guest post is written by Lior Levin, a marketing consultant for an inspection company that provides a container check in China and in Latin America. The best predictor of a startup’s success is how much the CEO is paid.

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

This includes start up funding (our first balance sheet had less than $10,000, today we are over $5 million), branding and market positioning (in 2016 we became EALgreen to emphasize the positive environmental impact of our business), and digital innovation (in 2021 we invested in best-in class, integrated technology platform to track donations).

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