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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., For most companies it feels like innovation can only happen by exception and heroic efforts, not by design. By design not by exception. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. In times of unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climates) you can fix your mistakes by burning more dollars. What is an IRR? It all starts with understanding what a startup is.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. In times of unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climates) you can fix your mistakes by burning more dollars. What is an IRR? It all starts with understanding what a startup is.