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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. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders.

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ On weekends, he evangelizes Customer Development and runs a Lean LaunchPad class nationwide in Japan.