Hearpreneur
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
I also grew up with a father who had traditional values around gender roles, favoring female domesticity over entrepreneurship and leadership. For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. He didn’t believe that women should be in business.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Well first, the sense of urgency you do hear at the top among the Pentagon leadership is not necessarily fully shared throughout the bureaucracy – surprise, surprise. Rather just rewarding this rigorous, we only care about cost and schedule. Looking at both performance and capability, but also cost, and so forth.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2020
A decade ago, China recognized that its initial success as the world’s low-cost factory was going to run its course. As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role. So if the United State lost TSMC in China, one new American plant would not make up the difference in capacity.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Yet while the U.S. Cold War strategy had gone from a “let’s be friends” to a “yes we can win” strategy.
Reid Hoffman
AUGUST 13, 2020
While I had grown up politically active (my parents demonstrated against the Vietnam War when I was a child) and I believed strongly in the importance of being a good citizen of the United States, I had internalized the traditional separation of business and politics. Leadership is ethical, cultural, and visionary.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. And I think the key additional factor that I added to the conversation is, like nearly all decisions in life, this is a cost-benefit analysis.
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
I began to realize a few things: First, everything we had done in electronic warfare in the Vietnam War was just a slightly more modern version of what we had done over occupied Europe in World War II. (And In all the Germans had over 7,500 radars dedicated to tracking and killing the allied bombers. Play spooky music here.
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