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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. Specifically, they wouldn’t give up their stranglehold on distribution and the value they placed on owning the recording.

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How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? Sometimes it means “royalty-free unless you distribute your source code (even though you’re not distributing ours).&# 2 Rob on 03.12.09

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

infochachkie.com

Other than a second-rate musician, “Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial core competency in router design and development. At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company.

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