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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”. Make it unique.

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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. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. His name is Alex Lawrence. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. Serendipity.

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Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud

Agile VC

This seems like a no-brainer but Ballmer and the MSFT board might lean towards a less risky path. Names like Stephen Elop of Nokia, John Donahue of eBay, and internal candidates (Satya Nadella, Steven Sinofsky, et al) are mentioned. Remember Lou Gerstner ran American Express before taking the helm at IBM in 1993. Want names?

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. 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. General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. Agilent is a $5.8