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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico. We should pivot. My experience outside the mainland U.S. But I notice that in the U.S

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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.). One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We

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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.). One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We

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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. It’s not a sales site. Can I run that through the business?”

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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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