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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. However, almost like clockwork, the inevitable next cycle of technology innovation would catch these now-public startups and their boards by surprise. Board Control.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Johnny Good post. How to get there.