Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consolidation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. If nothing else, it shows how many billions Meta is willing to commit in order to advance Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games. Unity’s recent $4.4

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