Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

I realize some of what I just said probably doesn't even make sense to nonclinical people, but the work that we do is demanding. And when you run from that, that's happening in one room and then the next room over, you have the demanding parent who's like, well, I'm friends with Marc Benioff and you're not moving fast enough.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. Right now, an at home health care aide makes about $25,000 a year , and the turnover rate is 100% because it’s a very draining, demanding job.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings.

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