Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman.

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Transformify

AUGUST 6, 2015

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. May Mark Zuckerberg’s free Internet project help more on the long run than the one –off donations? It will take years for the country to recover as its economy is heavily dependent on tourism.

Asia 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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