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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? Sloan is not the only guy who got foundations named after him – if you have money to donate universities will be all too happy to create chairs and schools in your name.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. If your target market is everybody in the United States, it’s really difficult to forecast. That is an old-school plan.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I read this quote by a guy named Parker Palmer, who is an author and an activist. I learned through this process of studying companies, and individuals, and entrepreneurs, people like Walt Disney, and Mother Teresa, and hundreds of people whose names I didn’t know until I started undergoing this study of writing this book, The Art of Work.

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