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Gordon Moore: The Accidental Entrepreneur


Je viens de lire un article autobiographique de Gordon Moore publié sur le site officiel de la Nobel Prize Foundation, particulièrement intéressant quant aux enseignements de cette fabuleuse épopée à Fairchild et Intel :

J’ai relevé ces conseils hautement profitables pour toute start-up ambitieuse :

Et ces passages que je préfère laisser verbatim.

From the beginning at Intel, we planned on being big. Since we had already been fairly successful at Fairchild, anything less successful in our new venture would have been a disappointment. So, at the very beginning we recruited a staff that had high potential and that we thought would be around to run the company for some time. This is an opportunity that many start-ups miss. There is no better chance to train managers than in a start-up, where they have the opportunity to see the entire company as it grows. It starts small and simple; one can see all the operations as they get bigger. I think that people looking at start-ups, venture capitalists in particular, ought to push very strongly not to squander the opportunity to develop management during that time period.

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Another thing we had learned along the way was to raise money before we needed it. One thing you find out after a little bit of experience as an entrepreneur is that the bank will lend you money as long as you don’t need it. You can sell stock as long as you really don’t have to. With good advice from directors such as Arthur Rock, we have always had plenty of capital on hand, so that we haven’t been hindered in our ability to raise more.

Vous trouverez l’article au complet sur le site de la Nobel Prize Foundation, ainsi qu’une interview de Gordon Moore datant de quelques jours sur le toujours très excellent Spectrum.


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  1. Thomas BARTHELET

    On retrouve bien là la philosophie du “think big, start small, deliver quick”.
    Pour ce qui est de l’avantage concurrentiel basé sur des technologies complexes, cela n’est valable que pour des firmes technologiques justement. Dans l’ère des plate formes, on a déjà vu que ce n’est pas la meilleure technologie qui tire son épingle du jeu…