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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Tiffani Bell , co-founder of the Detroit Water Project. Clay Hebert.

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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

There are entrepreneurs and innovators I regard very highly, but at times I’m uncertain if their missionary zeal will be channeled effectively towards building an enduring company or if it will be directed more at spreading their worldview. The Missionary. But arguably this is most true about the crusader founder type.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern.) Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet. And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. .

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh. The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. 4 days ago. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Lessons Learned.

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