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Mark Fisher • Exiting the Vampire Castle
These companies pioneered a new style of “bottom-up” growth, where individual contributors seeded a product’s adoption within a customer company.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Thus, we made an early and important decision: We did not want to be a “hire and fire”—a company that would seek large, short-term contracts, employ a great many people for the duration of the contract, and at its completion let those people go. This type of operation is often the quickest and most efficient way to get a big job accomplished. But B
... See moreDavid Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
growth between 1980 and 2001. Those are good results to aspire to. Older firms actually lost jobs!4
Randy Komisar • Getting to Plan B
The Goal: To Act More Like A Successful Startup The Do or Die Mindset Live your PVTV (Purpose, Vision, Tenets, and Values) Trust in the Right People Move at the Speed of Startup Welcome Failure
Jeff Hilimire • The 5-Day Turnaround: Be the leader you always wanted to be. (the Turnaround Leadership Series)
Sequoia Capital • Elements of Enduring Companies
If there’s one name today that’s synonymous with visionary leadership, it’s Steve Jobs.