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8 Things Steve Jobs Learned After Getting Fired By Apple

YoungUpstarts

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., Great management is like The Beatles. And with Pixar, Jobs went so far as to compare his management team with the Beatles. who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. That trauma?

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Shortly after I graduated from college in 1990, America entered a recession. The unemployment rate peaked at 7.3 percent in 1991. That same year, the U.S. experienced a record number of murders. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Tens of thousands of people around the world were dying from a virus there was no cure for.

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Don't Plan to Get Rich from Your Startup

Software By Rob

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Getting rich shouldn’t be your goal when launching a startup. There is a chance that your startup will provide riches beyond your wildest dreams.

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Beware The Consultant

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Be The Beatles Not The Flock Of Seagulls John Greathouse’s Bio ConTraps Part 2 ConTrap Part 3 ConTrap part 4 Startup Children Pt 2 Startup Children Pt 5 Startup Children Pt 3 Startup Children Pt 4 Decision Making 101 Talks: Jason Nazar on how to Persuade. About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? infoChachkie. Thanks for visiting!

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? infoChachkie. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Add to this that 72.7%