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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

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. Continuous innovation was here to stay and only founders – not hired execs – could play and win.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. A couple’s night out. Why only 10%?

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Minimum Wage Boost in Silicon Valley Ups the Cinderella Factor

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. San Jose, CA. Atlanta, GA.

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Fostering A Company Culture Of Ongoing Professional Growth

YoungUpstarts

In order to attract candidates earlier in their careers and hire them into more junior roles, companies are able to invest in the professional development of promising talent by offering learning tracks designed to fast-track their professional development and earn promotions.

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