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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

And that was in New York City. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. But ultimately, governments and companies figured out how to master the new technology and individuals lost, as the power of the state, and power of profit, controlled the new media.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

Sure, these new breed Internet companies far more often than not flame out than make it but, but ignore them at your peril as they will continue to be the big growth stories of our age. Growing Globally Has Never Been Easier. Who Needs the Stock Market?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris. He has been a reporter for The New Republic; has written about foreign policy for numerous publications; and is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis. How do you drop those on North Korea? .