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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923 he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” This time in what would become Silicon Valley.