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. After all, in order for this all to work it would require the generous donations of philanthropists and (ideally) the support of government programs down the line.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Governments everywhere are looking for ways to increase border security without making the border crossing process more onerous for both the passengers and the people responsible for security. Delta is launching a pilot program in Minneapolis-St. The technology has many advantages over traditional “flash pass” ID verification.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Government must intervene to correct market deviations. Applying his research to healthcare, however, Mr. Arrow found “the laissez-faire solution for medicine is intolerable.” A centralized system would be simpler (yeah!), and through economies of scale, cheaper. Image credit: Biography.com ].

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. Moving a manufacturing facility is hard. Moving a technology platform is easy.

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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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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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