Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

Part 1 talked about what I saw and learned – the layout of a carrier, how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions in context of the other ships around it (the strike group.) For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) that’s pretty easy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. The Stanford records showed that his group received more funding than any other and I assumed it was for construction of these operational systems. By the mid 1980s Ronald Reagan was cranking U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2014

The emergence of cloud applications like FreshBooks, Constant Contact, and Salesforce are changing the way we work by bringing enterprise power to small businesses at a fraction of the cost. They’re simplifying accounting, invoicing, project management, CRM, and more with no software to install, maintenance, or personnel costs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

I mean people out there don't realize the cost per click for advertising is going down. The customer acquisition costs are going down. ER : One of the things that Sam Altman said struck me was that during a boom the only thing that gets cheaper is cost of capital, everything else gets more expensive. People like your product."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. They're almost linear in terms of usage.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

As I later discovered, Joe’s first act was 24 years in the Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), retiring as a Colonel. Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks And we at the time made it $1,000 because that was around the cost of serving one of those units. And so we get to piggyback off of their 501-C3 status and they manage the actual financial operations.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

But while the TSMC announcement is welcome, if and when the Arizona foundry is built, it will only be able to make about a quarter of the chip production of TMSC’s largest semiconductor fabrication plants and would amount to just 3 percent of the manufacturing capability that TSMC currently operates in Taiwan. China’s Semiconductor Industry.

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