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Beware The Consultant

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John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police. |.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet. A few will be worth much, much more.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. eBay – Derived from Founder Pierre Omidyar’s consulting company, Echo Bay Technology Group. Expertcity was a great name for that business.

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