Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Get a shared understanding with your management team of why you are on Facebook. If you strip everything away, as designed, Facebook is a quest for Likes. You do need people (/one person) inside your company with skills in the Scientific Method, Design of Experiments and Statistical Analysis. It is very, very important to: 1.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. These three types of entrepreneurship need to be explicitly recognized, encouraged and managed. A Magnet For Talent. See below.).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy. I wrote “ The Risk Advantage “ to help entrepreneurs face the many situations, predicaments, and crises they’ll encounter during their lives and to help formulate their leadership style and business strategy. Or a partner defects with your top client. So yeah… a lot can go wrong.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

If you have a passion for design, programming or business – try to become incredibly skilled in one of those. I did this by starting my own design and !eb There were times of high profitability, but also times when we were close to bankruptcy. The skillset of a founder often defines the focus and the culture of a company.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Lets Fix Everything that Was Broken At SuperMac we were excited to finally get out of the crummy tiltup we had occupied since the company emerged from bankruptcy. Designing the Perfect Building Once the commitment to fix everything wrong was in place, we were off and running on the design phase. That’s when things went south.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. I do this through motivational speaking, leadership and business coaching, HR consulting and writing and I the impact I make is what keeps me going even when times get rough.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

For example, today, designing a smartphone App that alerts you when you have lost your car keys isn’t a viable standalone company; today, a service-based local software solution to manage ecommerce for brick and mortar companies, even if it is profitable, is not an interesting technology investment.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Most people want to know management is accountable.". Why Register?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2012

The middle class has been “programmed” with belief systems that weren’t designed to help us attain wealth and that, indeed, barely work at all anymore. We’ve all heard the horror stories: families so sunk in consumer debt they were forced to declare bankruptcy and individuals whose educational debt haunted them for the rest of their lives.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The middle class has been “programmed” with belief systems that weren’t designed to help us attain wealth and that, indeed, barely work at all anymore. We’ve all heard the horror stories: families so sunk in consumer debt they were forced to declare bankruptcy and individuals whose educational debt haunted them for the rest of their lives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. And that disappointment, I think that is the biggest lift for me right now is to manage my own disappointment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we could give customers lower price boards without Engineering spending 12 months to design new ones.) My own marketing department was convinced that the same industry magazines, which we had managed so well, would turn on us when they saw that the boards were physically identical. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 29, 2020

Trump inherited a great economy from his predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and for a while, he managed to keep it going?—?until Ten years later, the approach to leadership that Trump honed on The Apprentice continues to define his performance as president. “I am doing it again!”.

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