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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

Real-time points and mileage redemption appeared at the POS, first introduced over a decade ago and now going mainstream. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. Inflation: The Next Big Opportunity? While all this was true, something else was going on.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share The Movies That Motivates Them

Hearpreneur

Don't be so consumed with leadership aspirations that you forget that you're managing human beings. 19- The Shawshank Redemption Photo Credit: Shawn Stack The Shawshank Redemption. The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a criminal who is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in Shawshank Prison.

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10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version)

crowdSPRING Blog

Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, the leading startup incubator, and the essays on his blog providethought-leadership on topics as varied as startup funding, marketing, and life lived well. Not that it is fictional in any wayIt should be at once intriguing, provocative, and entertaining. This is what I get when I read Paul Graham.

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Post Brexit thoughts – we need leaders

The Equity Kicker

The big concern for me is how much damage comes in the short term as a result of the uncertainty, a concern that’s heightened by the almost embarrassing collapse of leadership at the top of our two main political parties. In fact, it’s an absence of leadership that landed us in this mess in the first place.

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Vanishing Mediary

Feld Thoughts

The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. If suddenly I’m needed for something, or get an assignment from the CEO or anyone else on the leadership team, I get after it. I can play a strong leadership role through my actions, rather than by a title that anoints me.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Reply links for 2009-09-07 « Blarney Fellow , on September 7, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]