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But it compelled me to watch Jefferies more closely, a company whose namesake and origin, unlike Morgan Stanley, had a pretty non illustrious past (for starters, I had never worked at an established firm that had only one name).
Robert Lessin • Lessin's Lessons
I realized that my clients could be successful as experts
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
— Thomas Malone and Robert Laubacher, “The Dawn of the E-lance Economy,” Harvard Business Review
Tom Peters • The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
independent inventors, small invention-focused firms, and academic researchers produce a share of discoveries wildly disproportionate to the resources they apply to the task.
Roger L. Martin • The Design of Business
high growth with a bad business design destroys value faster.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
true network-effects business.
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
As it turned out, out of every 100 publicly traded firms founded since the 1970s, 50 were backed by VC funds.