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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

That meant of course initially raising money and cutting costs. We have to manage our stakeholders, raise money, diversify our business, and cut costs." Every single meeting I had I started with, we're here today because we have to manage the stakeholders, we have to raise money, we have to diversify our business and cut costs.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day).