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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

What used to be an exercise in teeth-pulling frustration to get help from our own manufacturing or engineering departments turned into a well-oiled process as everyone stopped what they were doing to help us win. None of this was an accident. It was all part of a strategy.

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Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners.

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup strategy customer-development) [.] carry on reading.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT

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He then simultaneously held out a carrot and stick saying that the Pentagon had declared America’s dependence on foreign oil a security risk and that there was a $2 trillion potential market in wind energy over the next two decades (Massachusetts just won some federal grant money to build a wind blade test facility).

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Why Don't Universities Teach Sales?

Altgate

Go look at the “sales&# shelves in a book store to see the latest batch of snake oil. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged academic , entrepreneurship , Harvard , management , sales , Stanford , study. Bookmark the permalink. ← Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway?

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

William Dement, pp 51-53: The night of March 24, 1989 was cold and calm, the air crystalline, as the giant Exxon Valdez oil tanker pulled out of Valdez, Alaska, into the tranquil waters of Prince William Sound. The huge tanker ran aground, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into the sound. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! tags: startups) [.] #32 Except for one thing. 5 Appraisal Mind on 11.18.08 at 5:03 pm Nice writing. Doing software business is hard. 32 Jim Foxworthy on 01.14.09

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Your Business “Driving Force”

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Examples include Steel, Oil refineries, printing. Natural Resources Company’s purpose is to extract and productize oil, timber, etc. Examples: oil and mining companies. Dupont , 3M , and Intel are good examples. For example, catalog companies, door-to-door, MLM, Amazon. New products will follow same distribution.