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Rather than just raising cash as they grow their businesses, the smartest entrepreneurs select venture capitalists who can deliver valuable services. The best venture capitalists have access to the best networks, which further amplifies their value.
Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
2017, Columbia University Press
It is the same logic Microsoft would follow in the 1990s, when its Windows operating system was similarly run as a partially open system. Like AT&T, Microsoft invited its enemies to connect, to take advantage of an open platform, hoping they wouldn’t notice or worry that the platform came with a spring trap. For as with Bell, once having made one’s bargain with Microsoft, there was no going back.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.