Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. If above timestamp is not current time, this page is cached. --> Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance and planning. The Modern Corporation Sloan is rightly credited with formalizing the idea of the modern U.S. One guy really did all of this.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Corporate Finance One of the ironies in Silicon Valley is that the two companies which gave birth to its entire semiconductor industry weren’t funded by venture capital. ARD was almost exclusively focused on the East Coast ARD proved that institutional investors, not just family money had an appetite for investing into venture capital firms.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The venture firm was funded by Laurance Rockefeller and Lazard Freres, but after some dispute lost to the sands of time, Rockefeller pulled his financing, and the firm was dissolved after the first fund. The first limited partnership that lasted for a while was formed by Davis and Rock in 1961.

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