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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

Having achieved our business goals for the year and now being stocked in Nordstrom Stores have been proud moments. We had a great year from a balance sheet standpoint. 16- Hit $1 million revenue. I'm proud of our business finally hitting the $1 million revenue. Photo Credit: Justin A. Photo Credit: Alina Clark.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. Staying “lean&# is not an option.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. You're usually your own worst critic. Carl Liebert : Yeah. It's one of the books that I cherish.

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A Tale of Profit First Success from Sherri Tafoya, President & founder of Custom Blinds & Design

Mike Michalowicz

We opened my balance sheet together, and Dave said “Sherri, it looks like you are running just ahead of your sales. I started this in business part-time, in 2000, loaded with a prayer and a fully stocked min-van. I went from zero dollars in 2000 when I stocked my van with samples, to finishing out 2019 with $3.8

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

Steve Blank

Here are four reasons: First, companies bought into the false premise that they exist to maximize shareholder value – which said “keep the stock price high.” 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.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. Here are some stats to give you a sense: • Year over year revenue grew 51% in 2015 and we’re forecasting the same again for 2016. forward revenue for public comps (comparable stocks).