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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Your existing customers are you best source of referals – just ask. No investor cares about a business plan. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? We have structured all the business aspects and managed to make key alliances with public and private institutions. A few nuggets.