YoungUpstarts
JULY 5, 2018
2017 was capped by the announced bankruptcy of Toys “R” Us, a once formidable retail giant. In all, there were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail last year, according to data cited by CNNMoney. Big names getting onboard. That amounts to a 30 percent year-over-year rise.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. It was a technical tour de force.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? Sure one guy got kicked out – which could have been avoided if he ran company well enough to keep financial control – and the other hung in there and got institutions named after him. Yet you never hear who built that company. Who was he?
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