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When a big company makes an offer to acquire a successful startup, it almost always offers too much or too little: founders only sell when they have no more concrete visions for the company, in which case the acquirer probably overpaid; definite founders with robust plans don’t sell, which means the offer wasn’t high enough. When Yahoo! offered to
... See morePeter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
no more need to have them enforce our contracts.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Most of us don’t have three or four decades to build our fortunes. We want to do it in five to ten years, which I think is a reasonable window if you read this book and do what I tell you. If you compare businesses made from atoms (brick-and-mortar shops like Starbucks and McDonald’s) to businesses made from bits (software), there is no comparison.
Jason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
What’s interesting about blockchain instead is that it enables “frictionless binding contracts,” to use the language of economics.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The company's strategy is simple. Acquire small vertical software businesses with little competition, apply best practices from past experience and repeat as often as possible.
Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters
User Experience: There are a multitude of new strategies that have evolved into potential Core strengths and a common one now is user experience (UX). This seems to have been embraced by the market (or at least a significant part of it), which is a major contributor to the recent uptick in entrepreneurial activity and success in New York City, wher
... See moreBill Aulet • Disciplined Entrepreneurship
