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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. When I was starting LinkedIn, I had an early board member who asserted to me with great vigor and certainty that the business model of LinkedIn would be advertising.

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Is the Unicorn Endangered or Extinct?

Professor VC

The son of Armenian immigrants, he has spent the past four years in Las Vegas working as a mortgage banker, a job that he says paid him $250,000 in salary and commissions last year." No, the question today is not whether these unicorns are viable businesses. For the most part, they have proven that. or a market cap of $800M.