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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? It gave me a sense of purpose for the rest of the war. I hope all is well with you and the rest of the Blank clan.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. On the other side, we decided to lean into delivering in a big way, so we bought Postmates.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

So Corporate America has a dogs vs. cats problem — or perhaps a “Mars vs. Venus” problem is more appropriate. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I Rest assured these meetings aren’t spent with everyone in agreement, congratulating each other on their perfect ideas.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. It may happen, but its not there yet. (As As a test search twitter for tweets about non-consumer companies on the Fortune 500.)

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. The rest of us have some fine dining to enjoy. I doubt anything can beat it the rest of this year. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Self-aggrandizing blowhards like yourself are a dime a dozen.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Central America. Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. Sadly, the same for perhaps the entire African continent.

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