Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Yet as a business advisor I am convinced that making the jump from a startup to a the next unicorn takes a different mindset, and actions most entrepreneurs are reluctant to face. In my experience, less than half of founding entrepreneurs even aspire to stay and scale their company. Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

There are numerous great books out there on business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and other topics of interest to MBA students that can be immensely valuable to anyone looking to build their knowledge and prepare for a career in business. Mergers and acquisitions are a messy part of business and don’t always produce the expected outcome.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. Therefore, the profile of the initial team to staff an Innovation Outpost should be a technology-savvy business development group. In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions. What solution are we productizing ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations.

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