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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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After repositioning the company as a developer of high-end, premium products, Steve was excited to execute a marketing campaign. However, he stopped in his tracks when he learned that the engineers had only created a single product, rather than a family of graphics cards. We repackaged them and branded them as different products.

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Extracting More Than Cash From Your Angel Investors

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In order to extract value beyond your Angel investors' cash, you must first assess three important parameters: (i) the relative strength of their personal brand, (ii) their ability to add operational value, and (iii) the amount of care and feeding they will demand from you. The Elusive Engaged, High-Profile Investor. Share and Enjoy.

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Recruit Cal Ripken, Not Reggie Jackson, To Your Startup

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In the following 3-minute video I discuss the four categories that emerge when employees’ productivity and their required degree of managerial oversight are considered. Hands-on management of these teammates is a worthwhile investment while you determine if they have the ability to sufficiently enhance their productivity and autonomy.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay? Be extra productive. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. Most Emailed Feed. Email Newsletters and Alerts. WSJ.com Email Features. English Heritage.