Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Minneapolis/St. Just as Silicon Valley’s roots can be traced to innovation in World War II so can Minneapolis/St. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. We’re hopeful that by sharing our story, others in the tech and philanthropic world can get some ideas for ways they can use lean principles to help their communities through this trying time.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Government must intervene to correct market deviations. Today, she is President of Wick Financial , a strategic marketing firm that helps community banks improve performance. Applying his research to healthcare, however, Mr. Arrow found “the laissez-faire solution for medicine is intolerable.” and through economies of scale, cheaper.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Minneapolis voted to defund but then no one could agree on what that actually meant. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. Kathryn is exceedingly practical. New Yorkers are hard.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

For some examples of its influence, programming schools are springing up faster than ever in Vietnam with help from the government. Minneapolis created an incubation centre that drew investment from Google’s Eric Schmidt. Of the 131 startups valued at $1B and above Silicon Valley is home to 53 of them.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The City of Austin operates as a council-manager form of government, where City Council sets the policy and budget and the City Manager implements both. Spencer Cronk is the Minneapolis City Coordinator and previously served as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Administration. Why does the City Manager matter?

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