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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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How Tony Hawk And The Bones Brigade Broke The Rules & Owned The Market

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Skate One is now the world’s largest skateboard company, with best-selling brands such as Powell•Peralta Skateboards , BONES Wheels and Mini•Logo Skateboards. Skate One is now the world’s largest skateboard company, with best-selling brands such as Powell•Peralta Skateboards , BONES Wheels and Mini•Logo Skateboards.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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The world’s largest skateboard company, Skate One produces many of industry’s best-selling brands, including Powell•Peralta Skateboards , BONES Wheels and Mini•Logo Skateboards. George spent the first ten years of his career, gaining experience in the aerospace industry, before founding his skateboard company in 1976 at the age of 33.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Don’t Let Your Startup O.D. On Cash

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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we''ve rolled almost everything back into the company.". However, Gates and company realized that there were far more productive uses of Microsoft’s cash than to expend it to ensure the temporal comfort of a handful of traveling Executives.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Some channels will be expensive but highly scalable, such as direct response radio, while others will be less expensive, but more difficult to scale, such as search and affiliates. In addition, you must consider your customers’ lifetime value by channel , as there can be a great deal of variance between various clusters of customers.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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Such attorneys can also add tremendous value in your negotiations with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs), as they can ensure that you focus on the deal points that are of most significance to a small entity. He or she must be willing to fight for your company and go toe-to-toe with your investors.