Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. Stanford Industrial Park was the first technology office park set up to house local and out of state microwave and electronics startups.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

” 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!” For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

After been stationed at three fighter bases in Thailand ( Ubon , Udorn and Korat ) and working on Electronic Warfare suites on F-4’s, A-7’s, F-105’s and AC-130’s, I got orders to report to a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber base in Alpena Michigan. Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

Imagine if a VC took $4 million (an average Series A investment) and instead spread it across 40 deals at $100K each in a city with a great outward-facing technology university outside of Silicon Valley. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. Now they can.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Stanford will use Coursera’s technology to offer a mix of classes including computer science, business, and literature. Our vision is that this kind of technology is going to improve the experience for both populations,” she said.Ms.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. WSJ Classroom.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. His board (led by the DuPont family) tossed him out of General Motors (for the second time) in 1920 when GM sales were $567 million (about $6 billion in today’s dollars.) But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) I was living the dream – working 80 hour weeks and all the technology I could drink with a fire hose.)

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

AVOID TECH PINGPONG: FINDING YOUR PLACE IN EDTECH SXSW EDU | Track: Higher Education Speakers: James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst for Technology at ACT | NRCCUA The Pitch: In EdTech, companies make conflicting claims about their products. Panelists will discuss how the field of technology is enhancing women’s health and wellness.

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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. Let me know what you think. Does any of this match your experience or people you know?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

The 2012 fellowship recipients, along with their university affiliations and the titles of their dissertations, are: Mabel Botelho Abraham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Gendered Networks or Gendered Networking? More information on the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program can be found at www.kauffman.org/kdfp.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting. In the end.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. I'm from the Detroit area, they're getting hit really hard and so I've donated directly to Southeast Michigan. I love the way that technology is putting itself to use, or people are putting technology to use for very good work here.

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