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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. Board Control.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees.