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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

San Jose 175
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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

San Jose 120
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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, what's been widely circulated on the internet the past few months is a speech that President Obama gave in the middle of the Ebola response at NIH in December of 2014, which my team helped write, where he said, in December of 2014, "Hey, Ebola is a dangerous, horrible disease, but it's hard to spread. It's an environment problem.