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In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Lao Tzu suggests the answer is “yes,” because the functionality of the ship — the “emptiness” created by those boards — is the essence of the ship. What about a startup? So the interesting question for a startup is: What is constant? Did “it” really go around the world?

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A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company

Steve Blank

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu. This series of posts are going to offer a new three-stage model of how startups grow into large companies. The same is true for startups and companies. Stage 1: The Scalable Startup. They only differed by timing or scale. Getting From Here to There.

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