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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

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From that point, 3M began to transform more into the one we know today, developing the world’s first waterproof sandpaper, inventing masking tape, and Scotchgard. By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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How to Fund a Startup

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Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is thatyou know youre making something at least one customer wants. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.

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The Evolving Economics of the App

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