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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. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations.