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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. . In fact, it works globally.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving. began to decline.

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Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures

Ben's Blog

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. The Government axed the project shortly after.

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Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures

Ben's Blog

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. The Government axed the project shortly after.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine.