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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

The first is that it could carry limited inventory in stock because it had limited physical shelf space. But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. One common mistake is to equate “IP” with “code” or other technical contributions.

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Software Inventory

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. That means on the average day you have 150 metric tons of wheat flour in stock. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” An implementation process (writing code). That code is inventory.

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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Ownership of a corporation is measured in stock. Stocks are issued at the time the company is formed, and more can be issued over time. Verdict : It’s a tie!

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did.