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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobson

In the book, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate America – and distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map. This book is about what I’ve learned from my blunders, and how you can replicate our successes,” says Jacobs.

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Looking The Part More Important For Securing VC Backing

The Horizons Tracker

” Of course, such detachment from reality has been shown to have dire consequences, with famous cases such as WeWork and Theranos demonstrating the point. The researchers argue that success requires entrepreneurs to have a diverse set of skills, so they focused their attention on entrepreneurial, technical, and managerial expertise.

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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist.

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Why the Rules of the Entrepreneurial Game Are Changing

Leading Blog

Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. Case believes that if you are to start a successful company in the Third Wave it’s going to come down to partnership, policy, and perseverance. Your partnership skills may very well be the determining factor in the success or failure of your product. Can You Work with Others?

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The Five Proofs of Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

The record-breaking Facebook IPO proves a number of things. Facebook's success confirms these ideas: The value of networks. And of course Facebook itself is simply a way for others to create content and share it however they wish — with strangers or with intimates. Now back to the IPO. The power of platforms.

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If Snap’s Strategy Is Building New Products, It Won’t Live Up to Its IPO Price

Harvard Business Review

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. Why do so many large and successful companies make this mistake? Of course, there will be some products that are immensely valuable, and of course they are worth pursuing.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

Of course, anyone who really knows the history of platforms may recall the many that aspired to make gobs of money but never did and quickly died (think of the many B2B exchanges that never made it to the other side of dot-com bust). Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out.

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