Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back. (And
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Our part of the initiative was great: we had built out pioneering eClosing for mortgages, online document delivery and uploads, a sophisticated document generation system, efficient and accurate document imaging and indexing, but the rest of the project failed. I was the only person from software or finance.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Seven years ago, when I left to dedicate the rest of my career to social good, I thought I could take these lessons with me and use them to make a difference. And, cutting edge funders like the Global Innovation Fund are deploying the increasingly flexible and blended financing that is needed to allow and encourage rapid learning.
Haystack
MAY 4, 2019
My fingers are well-rested, but my writing prowess is likely rusty, so please forgive any rustiness in this post. ” chants will come from the Twitter Peanut Gallery, and many VCs do — there are outcomes like Duo in Michigan, Qualtrics in Utah, or Atlassian in Australia. “Get a plane!”
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 21, 2011
He only touches on them briefly in this article, but rest assured I will ask him to break down the details of each success he has had so we can learn from his case studies in future articles. I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it.
Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. Therefore I’m not sure what to make of the rest of their conclusions.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance and planning. William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. Martin , on October 5, 2009 at 9:11 am Said: I am curious to hear the rest of what Steve will have to say about Durant and Sloan.
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