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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Understanding the future of entrepreneurship may depend on understanding the contribution each of them made in the past. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. This is the first of several posts on Durant versus Sloan.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Yet it was a war in which tens of thousands of Americans fought and hundreds died. In doing so he accidentally launched entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley – with the help of the U.S. It’s a war you probably never heard of since most of it was classified, and both parties never wanted it public lest it got out of hand.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

We’ll update this post with links to his further installments. I was one of those kids who just couldn’t stop trying to start a company. I think I just really feared working for the Man. Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Multiple attempts followed by multiple failures. I don’t know any developers. No legal muck.