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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Now his son is reading your blog about creating a startup. That info was so burned into my 23 year old brain I could NEVER forget it as much as I tried… a shame I had a T prefix stuck on everything service related & could’nt escape ATC regardless of volunteering for SEA or Guam, the old needs of the USAF story.