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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. I used to work for a company located in Arlington, VA that had the CIA as a client. Cold War strategy had gone from a “let’s be friends” to a “yes we can win” strategy. Arms control with the U.S.

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Food Truck Rivalry on Campuses | WSJ.com | Campus as Market

Campus Entrepreneurship

This blog has posted on food trucks as many student entrepreneurs start with food trucks as a low cost option. My earliest memories of campus food trucks date to UW Madison in the 90s (a great weekend road trip from Chicago) and consumption of late night snacks from a variety of tasty trucks. MIT, in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

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