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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company. IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. What is a company anyway?