Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2024

On a personal level, the idea that I had started my first professional job in an industry and an area that I had been so passionate about since I was a kid growing up in Puerto Rico. HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

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. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.

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