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Be Where Your Business Is

Steve Blank

They’re growing the number of accounts and the deal size, but it feels like we’re incrementally growing a small business, not heading for exponential growth. She had something rare – a services company that provided real value with products that early customers loved. Lessons Learned.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S. The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). Soon others were created.

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