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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

2) Provide corporate management with near real-time divisional sales reports and budgets that indicated when they deviated from plan. William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. This time in what would become Silicon Valley. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply Fred Schoeneman , on April 7, 2009 at 12:17 pm Said: Steve, I found this and the Kauffman report intriguing. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Order Here.