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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. Weve had some awesome people come through," says Kim Gardner, an associate product manager at Flavorpill. Thats real money."

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. I paid him half of the Adsense revenue, which turned out to be about $500 a month, and he just managed the whole site.