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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Here’s why.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Here’s why.

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