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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Though I would pay the cost of having learned them for the rest of my life. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Though I would pay the cost of having learned them for the rest of my life. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

And we at the time made it $1,000 because that was around the cost of serving one of those units. And she had some time and she did our brand work in six days that another VP of marketing and I were commenting on as we were looking at it, this is a work product that we've all seen before and has cost $100,000 and taken six months.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

He was joined in his efforts immediately, as he told me, by dedicated and talented "self-selected people" who connected him with media outlets, politicians and more. In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread.

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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

The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before. Not only is that approach going to cost lives. Every day, you go on social media. Is there a way we could've avoided or at least softened the damage? Who could've seen this coming?