Remove Community Remove Differentiation Remove Holding Company Remove Leadership
article thumbnail

Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

article thumbnail

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

During the early to late eighties, it seemed like Disney was destined to become a name that only parents and grandparents would remember, as a slew of box office flops and a lack of investment in the parks meant that the company was on the verge of a hostile takeover, that would have seen it broken up and its various divisions sold off for profit.

article thumbnail

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Prior to founding Keen Home , Nayeem Hussain spent his career focusing on M&A, corporate development/strategy, and financial analysist, first at Prudential Financial and then at Loral Space & Communications. Will : … I want to focus on impacting my community and region as much as I possibly can. Will : Absolutely.