Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2015

What’s in a name? Would a rose called by any other name sell just as well? Coming up with a name for your business is just as important as the business idea itself. A name not only identifies you, but it can also serve to set you apart from your competitors and reflect your values. So what’s in a name?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The 8 teams spoke to 115 beneficiaries (users, program managers, etc.); The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” Advanced Lecture: Concept to Deployment in the DOD.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The 8 teams spoke to 115 beneficiaries (users, program managers, etc.); The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” Advanced Lecture: Concept to Deployment in the DOD.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project. and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) The Cold War.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Mark has a unique ability to use his name and his platform to open doors. Buy these sandals and we'll contribute money to building schools in Afghanistan for girls who otherwise couldn't go to school. There's a product manager at 3M that knows the N95 mask business inside and out, domestically and globally. Why wouldn't I?"

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