Top Highlights

• “One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”
• the founders of these companies have aspirations to grow very quickly, independent of geographic boundaries.
• According to Steve Blank, “A startup is a temporary organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”3
• a startup is not a small version of some future big company. It is a series of experiments in the search of a scalable business.
• The idea is durable: It is not a fad and will last long enough to allow for monetization.