Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Not So Smart, You Just Show Up a Lot While this was going on, my roommate (who I knew from Ann Arbor where he got his masters degree in computer science,) couldn’t figure out how I kept getting these increasingly more interesting jobs. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Ann Arbor to Alpena – 180 Miles and a Major Culture Gap While I never got tired of looking at the planes, one my fondest memories of this base was driving down U.S. 23 to Ann Arbor when the leaves turned in the fall. I was always kind of curious. I was always curious about, and asking about, the big picture.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. Let me know what you think. Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The other funny bit of the story is that after I came back from Ann Arbor, I got requests from fellow solar car team members to share some of the photos I used in the presentation (it was mostly a slide show). It’s impossible in my view to learn to be an entrepreneur in a classroom (or reading a blog). Bookmark the permalink.

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