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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). And they channel all this into whatever activity they can find outside of their home – sports, business, or …entrepreneurship. For decades I couldn’t understand why. Lessons Learned.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). And they channel all this into whatever activity they can find outside of their home – sports, business, or …entrepreneurship. For decades I couldn’t understand why. Lessons Learned.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The response was inevitably “great pipeline.” (Great pipeline means no real sales.). The founders.

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