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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

She opens the window and she leans out. Stand up, use their name, say Bob, say Sarah, you know, you are welcome to come back when you are ready to treat me with respect or enough or, you know, this is, this conversation is over. And there's a woman at in the kitchen doing the dishes and her kids are outside playing in the snow.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

A year later the Korean War turned the cold war hot, as communist North Koreans attacked and overran most of South Korea (except for a small defensive perimeter in the south.) If you want to refer to PVO by name, call it just PVO (acronym for “Air Defense&# in Russian). 34,000 U.S. soldiers died in battle.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. Overnight, we became a nation of homeschoolers. Here's my conversation with Sal Khan.

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Here are The Missing Positives of This Election

Both Sides of the Table

We still do have a long way to go on gender equality and Hillary becoming president — whatever your political leanings or views — will go along way towards telling young women anything can be achieved. When I went to add partners at Upfront I called an LP of mine and told him I was trying to recruit a new partner named Kara Nortman.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. If you only have one data point though or one data source, like China, that's not very reliable, but as soon as you start having South Korea and Iran and Italy, now you have four sources from different countries, different organizations.