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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. The third is high gross margins.