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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. At the time he was not only running GM but was a major Wall Street speculator (even on GM stock) and was big in the New York social scene. There’s the Alfred P.

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New York Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Next week, I travel to New York, where I'm especially excited to see the entrepreneurial renaissance that is in progress, first hand. I am declaring next week to be officially Lean Startup Week in New York City. Special thanks to Trevor Owens for helping to organize my New York trip.).

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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New Power: An Interview with Henry Timms

Startup Lessons Learned

Was there a moment in your own life and work when you first saw the effects of new power? The 92nd Street Y is in New York, where one of the events we all pay attention to is UN Week. Really, what UN Week brought New York was gridlock. UN Week is typically the most old power week of the year. million last year.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

I grew up in New York in a single-parent household that teetered on the bottom end of lower middle-class in what today we’d call “working class.”. Most of my classmates who opted for college went to the local colleges or New York State University schools. Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

I grew up in New York in a single-parent household that teetered on the bottom end of lower middle-class in what today we’d call “working class.”. Most of my classmates who opted for college went to the local colleges or New York State University schools. Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

This super-cute Michigan cottage looks like a house from the outside, but on the inside, it’s a great place for co-workers to find their focus and get some work done. Designed as a work space for writers, Paragraph takes up a 2,500-square-foot loft space in New York City. 654 Work Cottage.