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University of Minnesota Commencement speech – May 10th 2013

Steve Blank

Minnesota is a wonderful place to hunt, fish, canoe, raise kids, and pursue lots of interests other than just your job. University of Minnesota Science and Engineering alumni have founded more than 4,000 active companies, employing over ½ million people and generating annual revenues of $90 billion. And that’s great. Only In America.

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University of Minnesota Commencement speech – May 10th 2013

Steve Blank

Minnesota is a wonderful place to hunt, fish, canoe, raise kids, and pursue lots of interests other than just your job. University of Minnesota Science and Engineering alumni have founded more than 4,000 active companies, employing over ½ million people and generating annual revenues of $90 billion. And that’s great. Only In America.

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Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

Steve Blank

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. Don then recruited Karl Smith from the University of Minnesota to pilot a class of 9 teams made up of STEM educators.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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