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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit. For decades I couldn’t understand why.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit. For decades I couldn’t understand why.

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5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

This is important because it means you should be tracking your sales and profitability all year long, and determining that your business has extra cash to spend as early in the year as possible, so you can plan for how to spend it in the most tax-efficient way possible. I think it’s one of the reasons we work so well with M.

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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. The response was inevitably “great pipeline.” (Great pipeline means no real sales.). We now understand that’s wrong.

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