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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. The team’s success centers on favoring the metric of “getting on base” over “swinging for the fences.”

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

on the Richter scale, but it severed the Bay Bridge, flattened a section of freeway in Oakland, and killed sixty-three people. Another group, launched just before or after 2000, were stable enough to succeed while newer companies like Salesforce (1999), Google (1998), Twitter (2006), and Yelp (2004) have taken off like jackrabbits.