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Seven Startup Lessons from Intuit (fitzblog.com)
17 points by icenine on Aug 1, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



The ITConversations interview with Scott Cook is one of the most useful on the site:

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail523.html


Though this was over 20 years ago, it's an example of a founder who was an expert in business. Now what I wonder is how the two found each other. Was Cook the one generating the ideas and product vision? Then along the way he found Proulx?


Believe it or not, most billionaires are experts in business. Most startup billionaires don't found companies like Microsoft, they found companies like U-Haul and Grey Goose.

(Although I think there are a disproportionate number of CEOs with engineering backgrounds.)


The business guy did indeed come up with the idea. He found the programmer by putting up fliers all around the Stanford campus.


Is it just me or FitzBlog's website design is all over the place. I'm using FF btw.




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