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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. Strategies at this stage include: Hire your own lobbyists. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. Strategies at this stage include: Hire your own lobbyists. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine. Which we know for the holidays, we were ramping up a campaign and we said how can we participate? Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers

mashable.com

A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008. Optimizely In a quick survey of our startup-minded Twitter followers, Optimizely was far and away the most highly recommended resource for startup and developer A/B testing. Facebook Wins Another Patent for Its.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment. New Hampshire. New Jersey.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. If you’re online, it’s a little bit easier to track that through pay per click campaigns and things like that, because there’s a lot of analytics behind that so that you can track what that costs.

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Avoid These Big Mistakes When Hiring Your Next Keynote Speaker

YoungUpstarts

Keynote speaker Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, didn’t mention the nominee, Mitt Romney, until about two-thirds of the way through his speech. Before you book keynote speakers for your next company event, learn some lessons from what the Romney campaign did wrong. Avoid the Shameless Self-Promoter. A Few More Tips.

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