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Survival Tips From A Seasoned Digital Nomad Who Made It Out The Other Side

YoungUpstarts

” by Spencer Johnson to be overly simplified, the heart-warming tale of mice and little people learning to adapt under ever-changing conditions was exactly the push in the right direction that me and my wife needed to pack our bags and head off in search of personal growth and adventure. Make sure your papers are in order.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

In the early 1970’s, as some of you might remember, our country was in the middle of the Vietnam War—-and the Air Force was happy to have me. My job was to replace failed electronic warfare equipment in fighter planes as they returned from bombing missions over North Vietnam. We let our customers, our investors, and our employees down.

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. Janesville, tells the story of laid-off factory workers of a General Motors factory that’s never going to reopen.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

And we filled it with racks of receivers and displays , wire and strip recorders and communications intercept equipment that could search the electromagnetic spectrum from 50 megahertz to 3 gigahertz, and this is 1943. I ultimately answered that call, joining Sun Microsystems with a 3-digit employee number. Play spooky music here.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

One neighbor owned the corner drug store, and another had a furniture store, though most of our neighbors were simply employees with 9-5 jobs in retail and construction. The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Increased productivity means increased profits allowing manufacturers to pay higher wages and attract the best employees. My parents were both refugees from Vietnam and had to support a family of five. There are several nice side effects from increased productivity. I'm totally addicted to helping manufacturers improve!

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How Virtual Assistants Are Reshaping The Business Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

Look, AI is literally eating the web ChatGPT is more searched than I don't know, Taylor Swift. But the business that I started went from zero to 40 employees. And so I got virtual assistance and I started out in India and then I was in Pakistan and in Sri Lanka and Vietnam and all over the place. (07:50):