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A Beer Drinker's View of the Venture Industry

Genuine VC

The famed business strategist Michael Porter described a set of successful general strategies which firms employ to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage: differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy for those firms with a broad market scope, and a segmentation strategy for those with a narrow market scope.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. Finally, I had an answer to the question I had asked 35 years earlier when I was in Thailand: “How did electronic warfare get started?&# Electronic warfare and signals intelligence in the U.S.

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The importance of confidence and the four keys to getting it

Jeff Hilimire

Confidence can make the difference between a startup getting off the ground, getting that big promotion, or even meeting someone at a party. It doesn’t go well when he’s leading Easy Company into their assault on Foy, Belgium. Anxious about a networking event coming up? He lost his confidence. Norman Dike.

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