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What Startups Need to Know About Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

Regulated marketplaces are ones that have significant government regulation to promote (ostensibly) the public interest. regulation happens on three levels: federal laws that are applicable across the country are developed by Federal government in Washington. state laws that are applicable in one state are imposed by state government.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Episode 50: Video Content and Profitability with Seth David

Mike Michalowicz

Seth’s role there was to perform audits; prepare tax returns for Corporations, S-Corps, LLC’s, Partnerships; and bankruptcy compilation work for SEC reporting and litigation. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America.

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

ConversionXL

Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. ask only simple easy questions – that should be clear in the first 5 sec.). Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play. Test with low cost?

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

We also know lots of valid reasons why the company could be valued at far less than it once was including: Stalled Growth – revenue essentially flat over the last 4 quarters. You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press. Zynga’s trailing revenue is nearly $1.2B

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IPO Task Force Leader: JOBS Act a Wake-up Call for Startups

ReadWriteStart

A series of rules, regulations and other compliance issues aimed at large-cap, already-public companies has increased the time and costs required for emerging companies to take this critical first step," the report stated. The survey learned that the average cost that companies sustain just to go public was $2.5

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