YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 9, 2019
by Jason McCann , founder and CEO of VARIDESK. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, it devastated the island. What made our efforts in Puerto Rico so transformative wasn’t the money or effort we put in, but the fact that we could travel there with a team of people from all over our organization.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. is amazing.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 5, 2012
Department of Labor just announced that $35 million in funds were available to “develop, enhance and promote SEA programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” five states - Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon - already have active SEA programs.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 19, 2016
We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 19, 2016
We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2020
The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. So they came onto a lot of people's radars around the hurricane in Puerto Rico. In every case, they've simply been asked to take on work and said yes. Sydney Gressel is a nurse in the pediatric emergency department at UCSF's Benioff Children's Hospital.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
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. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.
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