Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Innovators are not entrepreneurs. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. The cat cafe business model is incredibly new, and as such, there is much less in the way of a road map for these entrepreneurs to follow. Do something that fits your community.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

The restaurant business, traditionally a hothouse for entrepreneurism, suffered greatly in the current downturn but is rebounding, with industry-wide sales trending upwards over 2009 and restaurants hiring again, albeit slowly. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Video credit: SusieFoodie.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

The restaurant business, traditionally a hothouse for entrepreneurism, suffered greatly in the current downturn but is rebounding, with industry-wide sales trending upwards over 2009 and restaurants hiring again, albeit slowly. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Video credit: SusieFoodie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Maybe we are talking about community servants or folks we previously thought were community servants. We can be deliberate about these things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

oWOW’s work is supported by many high-profile individuals like the former vice mayor of Oakland, California, Annie Campbell Washington, and Elaine Brown of the Black Panther Party. Homes are being built affordably, quickly, and beautifully, and communities are forming around oWOW developments.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

on the Richter scale, but it severed the Bay Bridge, flattened a section of freeway in Oakland, and killed sixty-three people. Dole now lists its headquarters as New Jersey—and rumor has it that Chevron, having relocated its headquarters in phases from a tower on Market Street to the East Bay community of San Ramon, is headed for Texas.

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