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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

SBDC advisors can help brainstorm strategies and address problem areas, like how to lean up your manufacturing processes. Mississippi State University helps process the data each year and organizes the results for the ASBDC. They also tend to last longer than the average startup, or experience greater survivability.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2013

In the summer of 2008 the entire Upper Mississippi River Basin flooded and inundated ten square miles of Cedar Rapids, including the entire downtown of this community of about 100,000. And, we need sturdy things that we can lean on when we’re unsure. Surprised? I mean you heard about Katrina and Sandy, but Cedar Rapids?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

By contrast, Stuart grew up working in his father’s law office in the Mississippi Delta. That made our first winter in the shop very lean, but we made it through,” he says. We have leaned on LivePlan since we were a cart,” Stuart explains. We needed more working capital when we started, but didn’t have it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. While the sharp end of the stick were the pilot and/or crew, each of these systems required a cadre of technicians to maintain and repair the equipment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? Shut up and keep fixing that equipment.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Stay Hungry, Stay Curious When these bombers got their first modern Electronic Countermeasures suite (the ALQ-117 with automatic wide-band receivers and jammers), I got sent back to school for three months (to scenic Biloxi Mississippi again) to learn how to repair it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.

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