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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). Though I would pay the cost of having learned them for the rest of my life.

San Jose 175
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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). Though I would pay the cost of having learned them for the rest of my life.

San Jose 120
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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on. So President Obama set up that office after I departed, put someone named Beth Cameron in charge of that office, a real global health expert. Not only is that approach going to cost lives.