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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

We’ve gone global as well. In the past year alone, we’ve taught over 250 teams, over 1,000 entrepreneurs and their mentors in dozens of countries how to create scalable startups in domains from software and hardware to healthcare and energy. Haas global footprint. Clearly, lean works globally. In fact, it works globally.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I remember in the late 90′s trying to charge fair prices for software when my well-financed competitors were giving things away for free. In economics we call these “exogenous events&# and if they happen (Greek debt crisis, problems raising the US debt ceiling, trouble in Saudi Arabia) – you will not be shielded.

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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

As entrepreneurs with a passion for helping others, they’ve built a company that is vastly accelerating the ability to deliver healthcare to the most needy global communities. The Atlas Group London system is a suite of unique software tools on a single platform that is without precedent in today’s healthcare sector.

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The Artificial Intelligence Opportunity: A Camel to Cars Moment

Occam's Razor

You’ll learn all about the Global Maxima, definitions of AI/ML/DL, and the implications related to the work we do day to day. I lived in Saudi Arabia for almost three years. Saudi Arabia is a country that saw massively fast modernization. Working at DHL was a deeply formative professional experience.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

The same thing happened with MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome 10 years later that occurred initially in Saudi Arabia and spread to a little offshoot into Korea. That's the most important long term lesson I think that we as a global society should take home. Eric Ries : Just explain a little bit about what that.