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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

” But achieving decentralization requires a meaningful investment in capital in order to attract a distributed network of users and network managers that maintain the decentralized ledgers (or nodes). As Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin notes , “Once you adopt a richer economic model…decentralization becomes more important.”

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