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Start an Inferno with a Match Stanford Startup School
They Didn’t Need a Lot of Money to Start (<$2M)
…But Got Fairly Big ~$ 500,000M $264 M
Not Only Great P&Ls, Great Companies Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs Apple Trip Hawkins Electronic Arts Sandy Lerner & Len Bosack Cisco Jerry Yang & David Filo Yahoo Larry Page & Sergey Brin Google Jen-Hsun Huang nVidia Max Levchin& Peter Thiel PayPal Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed Karim YouTube Alfred Lin & Tony Hsieh Zappos Trevor Healy & Daniel Mattes Jajah Omar Hamoui AdMob Steve Streit Green Dot
Its Not About Being Small
They Thought Differently . . . They Had To
They Didn’t Throw Money at Problems
They Were More Clever
They Built Simple Easy-to-Use Products
They Were More Focused
They Rang the Cash Register Early
They Stayed Close to the Customer
They Moved with Greater Agility
Its Not Just About Being Small
Its About Doing More With Less
Achates Power Dave Johnson Diesel engine systems
Steve & Steve Sandy & Len Larry & Sergey Ship Something Early
Put a Price on it
AirBnB Brian Chesky Joe Grebbia Nathan Blecharczyk Peer-to-peer travel network
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