Leadership Merger Product Development Technology 
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2023
One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.
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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.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2020
One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 17, 2015
In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 16, 2018
One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2010
These new challenges require a different set of management and leadership skills. One of the most striking attributes of founders is their individual contribution to the company, be it in sales or product development. The Scalable Startup stage called for opportunistic and agile leadership.
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