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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. I invited the faculty to attend the Lean LaunchPad educators’ course to learn how we teach the class.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Statistics have been vital to the way our governments have provided their citizens with information on the pandemic. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day. It may come as no surprise that the most common employer of statistics students is usually the government. Politics play a huge role in our lives.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. I invited the faculty to attend the Lean LaunchPad educators’ course to learn how we teach the class.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

through the Lean Launchpad class. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school. He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together.

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How Women Can Achieve Success In Male Dominated Professions

YoungUpstarts

However, once I got married, my career path changed, as my husband’s job was transferred back up to Connecticut (where I’m originally from). In Connecticut I chose to make the transition from working at a large public accounting firm, to a small privately owned company. Kathy Jensen joined CST Group in 2012 as Senior Manager.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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