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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. Act Like a Startup.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it.

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