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A Beer Drinker's View of the Venture Industry

Genuine VC

The famed business strategist Michael Porter described a set of successful general strategies which firms employ to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage: differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy for those firms with a broad market scope, and a segmentation strategy for those with a narrow market scope.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

My two cents is that’s it’s less of a “disinterest in history&# than an inability to make the history of technology accessible to a non-technical audience. These exciting days of contact with stimulating, dedicated people provided a breadth of experience which I still treasure.&# I’ll go back and give it another read.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

It is the only way to ensure your leadership is not trapped in the let’s solve for 2% of our business success thinking. A much more detailed collection of recommendations I’d written for the Government of Belgium a little while back. They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It!

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