Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

Fast Company named Nina one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. Brandon teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. We were hiring our first employee … we didn’t have a lot of (money in the bank), we only had one grant $350,000 at the moment. Steve : What does that mean?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I see the name of Noel’s company. Why don’t you give Jason the name of your company or your URL? We’re an integrate from that company but we had a lot of regret in hindsight when it came with the name that we picked. But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2013

Through a series of events and interviews, I was brought on as an intern, became president of the local student group at my university, then stayed as a branch volunteer after graduation, and finally applied and was hired for a position at the headquarters. Though I’m back in Michigan now, I still work with CFI, five years later.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

By some miracle I got into the University of Michigan, and soon started passing classes by developing strong relationships with my professors rather than living in the library. I’ve always had a passion for photography, so while at U of M I joined the Michigan Daily (the campus student publication) as a photographer. Let’s back up.

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2015

Her extensive online influence and unique approach to coaching business owners to success has won her the attention of national and international media, including Forbes.com, which named her one of “30 Women Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter,” and Hubspot, which called her one of the “100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter.”.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2019

My previous firm, Workwell Partners, was an aligned dealer for Haworth, a 2 billion dollar family-owned furniture manufacturer based in Holland, Michigan. How did you come up with your business name? Clients hire us at a flat, pre-negotiated fee to set the furniture project roadmap for them. How do you help clients?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2019

” Is that it gives you usually a list of two or three names and this is really key. It gives you a list of two or three names that that person would be comfortable introducing you to. Because if they wouldn’t be comfortable introducing you to them, they’ll just not list them in those names. David Burkus: Yeah.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site? You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. You have a delightful website, it is chugging along merrily at a 1.7%

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

So you wanna write a book worth reading because if you're using a book in that way, those who read it will be using that book to decide if you're credible and if you're worth hiring. I share the story in the book of a guy named David and back in the early, I think it was 1980s, David founded an, founded an idea called Appreciative Inquiry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver. Sydney Gressel : One of my favorite meditation teachers is a man named Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Eric Ries : Who coined the name Frontline Foods?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. Again, same as above.

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