Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Last, but definitely not least, we continue to be impressed by Umi’s founders. Khalil Tawil is a graduate of West Point and a veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan. Umi can also dynamically control its offerings based on local demand.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2015

We’re a video production company and I used my initials TAR, not knowing at the time that it’s fairly common to name a business after the founder. After returning from a deployment to Afghanistan with the Navy Reserves, I wanted to shift gears and build a meaningful organization deeply rooted in national service.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2014

Gabriel Mays is the Founder and CEO of Just Add Content , which makes affordable, easy to use small business websites. Previously Gabe served as a Captain in the Marine Corps for 8 years, spending 2 years between Iraq and Afghanistan operating on small, embedded advisor teams.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2012

I also spoke to the founder of a leading nonprofit consultancy who confided that he wished he had founded his organization as a for-profit instead, admitting “It really doesn’t matter these days, and the transparency is a real problem for us.”. Also, funders themselves seemed increasingly open to the market as a force for change.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

It was a rallying cry of our founders as they built a single unified nation from a collection of states. The unintended consequence of this decoupling is seemingly perpetual wars (we’ve been in Afghanistan for two decades). This post previously appeared in Real Clear Defense. It’s a good reminder of where we need to go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

That's the impulse that led Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy , to believe he might someday be able to turn the not-for-profit online learning platform into a world-shaping institution along the lines of the Smithsonian or Oxford. I'm the Founder of Khan Academy. How did you become this unusual founder of this education movement?

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Wordpress.com founder Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that a routing issue in the data center caused the outage. Layered Technologies (LayeredTech) manages most of the Wordpress.com infrastructure. According to LayeredTech materials , in 2005 Wordpress.com had five servers. Today, LayeredTech manages about 1,000 servers for Wordpress.com.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Wordpress.com founder Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that a routing issue in the data center caused the outage. Layered Technologies (LayeredTech) manages most of the Wordpress.com infrastructure. According to LayeredTech materials , in 2005 Wordpress.com had five servers. Today, LayeredTech manages about 1,000 servers for Wordpress.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. And then you read one years later called Team of Teams, and it was about how as the US went into Afghanistan to go fight, they started in a very command and control, information efficient organization. In every case, they've simply been asked to take on work and said yes.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S. Bethenny Frankel, Founder of Skinnygirl is really an inspiration for me. #3- General Keith Alexander. Photo Credit: Renee Volpini.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The experience helped him become the top military officer in Afghanistan and director of the CIA. Ted Turner: “Set your goals higher than you can achieve.” : This was the last bit of advice the founder of CNN and Time Warner vice chairman received from his father. in international relations.

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