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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. A more recent incarnation of this is the 2007 development of ARPA-E, designed to fund basic science related to advanced energy technologies. NASA in Houston; SLAC and Lawrence Livermore labs in California).

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. Jessica Houston Enterprises is a women’s empowerment business that provides personal and professional development training. 8) I found nothing.