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Power Point: What would Steve Jobs do?

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November 5, 2009, 10:45 PM ET

“The threshold for the release of the first product should be, ‘What would Steve Jobs do?'”

— Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder, who often evokes Apple ‘s maestro CEO in his advice to entrepreneurs. Andreessen is quoted in the Fortune cover package, “Steve Jobs: CEO of the decade,” hitting newsstands Friday. Fortune‘s retrospective of “all things Steve” includes timelines, online photo galleries, and testimonials from Jobs’ friends and colleagues. For the next week, our Power Points–the quotes we post frequently on Postcards–will be plucked from this coverage of the world-changer whose comeback is the ultimate story of redemption. –Jessica Shambora

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