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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Steve Blank

Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. For what I had thought were a few simple ideas about taking what we’ve learned about startups and applying it to corporate innovation, the post has gotten an amazing reaction.

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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Steve Blank

Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. For what I had thought were a few simple ideas about taking what we’ve learned about startups and applying it to corporate innovation, the post has gotten an amazing reaction.

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2011

Startup Lessons Learned

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. But until that happens, we entrepreneurs have our own ecosystem, of investors and service providers, norms and even some "best" practices.

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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

Ernest Hemingway One of an entrepreneur’s greatest strengths is their relentless pursuit of a goal. Watching others try to solve problems reminded me why entrepreneurs are different. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups. Surprisinly, this strategy works well with many entrepreneurs. I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. Or at least venture-style returns.