Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
The convergence of digital trends along with the rise of China and globalization has upended the rules for almost every business in every corner of the globe. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.” This causes the cost of capital for Flexible VC, often calculated through IRR (similar to an interest rate), can be higher than that of venture debt or traditional RBI. Venture Debt.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
This is specifically a program to recruit CEOs, investors, and other business leaders, to help them use their superpowers to help protect democracy. We ask our Ambassadors: “Do you have access to a media platform? Does your business touch potential voters? Are you aware of the information that the media should know?
Occam's Razor
OCTOBER 14, 2014
This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). See Page 269. :).
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