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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer. All the movies were released by a major Hollywood studio and played on at least 1,000 screens in the U.S.

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