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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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Trust, But Verify

Seeing Both Sides

  Bandwidth-limited general partners and frenetic CEOs are under pressure to move fast and get things done, leading to rushed, sloppy work to secure the deals.   Like on many critical issues, CEOs need to be ahead of their boards and leading them towards good governance, not dragging along behind them. .

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

That cap will now specifically apply to a broader group of small companies: those with annual gross revenues of $1 billion or less (adjusted for inflation), within a five-year interval from the sale of its first security. Previously $5 million, the securities sales cap will be raised to $50 million.

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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. Know your North Star Metric.

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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. Corporate Partners. Show Links.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone with over amillion dollars in liquid assets or an income of over $200,000 ayear. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains.