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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Ballmer and Microsoft failed because the CEO was a world-class executor (a Harvard grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. How to Miss the Boat – Five Times.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Ballmer and Microsoft failed because the CEO was a world-class executor (a Harvard grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. How to Miss the Boat – Five Times.

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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

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10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Technology Live. Americas new business model: Sharing. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties.

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10 Tips For Building The Most Scalable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards.

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