10 Huge Companies That Radically Changed Their Business Plan

Business Insider:

But for their companies to succeed in the long run, founders also need to be ready to fail. They need to be ready to learn from those failures and adapt.

See 10 huge business successes born from evolutions ?

Marc Andreessen, the serial entrepreneur who successfully created and sold two billion dollar companies -- Netscape and Opsware -- preaches this lesson:

"Trying to understand how a tech company is going to be successful is a little bit like looking at a sonogram and trying to predict the baby's hair color," Marc said recently.

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Comments

[Stock market]

10:40 AM on 10/15/2009

The wealth gap will widen to levels never before imagined while the middle class ceases. Our politicians need to do more to ensure equality.

good articles; http://bit.ly/1NkbAn

A person making 60,000 pays 20,000 of it in various taxes. A person making a million or more has a tax rate of 30% compared to 90% decades ago.

[slowhand0728]

02:17 AM on 10/15/2009

Cracks me up how many like to highlight Twitter and Facebook as great successes, show me one nickel in profits. Doesnt exist and wont, and if they try and charge for anything, bang a new Twitter or facebook will emerge to take their place. Just like news online, try and charge for it 20 others will give for free.

[ImissBush]

06:40 PM on 10/14/2009

his lesson??

sell b4 the price tanx

whts netscape worth now?

[Stock market]

02:51 PM on 10/14/2009

The wealth gap will widen to levels never before imagined while the middle class ceases. Our politicians need to do more to ensure equality.

good articles; http://bit.ly/1NkbAn

that means no bank bailouts. no tax cuts except for those in the middle and lower income brackerts more heath reform. affordable tuition.

[ibsteve2u]

01:40 PM on 10/14/2009

A little birdie told me Avon has taken advantage of the flood of people the economy is droving towards their business model by reducing the percentage their "representatives" get on all sales.

Everything bad for the American people is GOOD for Big Business!