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University of Minnesota Commencement speech – May 10th 2013

Steve Blank

Minnesota is a wonderful place to hunt, fish, canoe, raise kids, and pursue lots of interests other than just your job. University of Minnesota Science and Engineering alumni have founded more than 4,000 active companies, employing over ½ million people and generating annual revenues of $90 billion. And that’s great.

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University of Minnesota Commencement speech – May 10th 2013

Steve Blank

Minnesota is a wonderful place to hunt, fish, canoe, raise kids, and pursue lots of interests other than just your job. University of Minnesota Science and Engineering alumni have founded more than 4,000 active companies, employing over ½ million people and generating annual revenues of $90 billion. And that’s great.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. Sketching Hypotheses We began by creating a few hypotheses, based on what we saw happening in the food security system: Restaurants were hurting due to lockdowns: less foot traffic, less revenue, and facing the prospect of laying off many staff members.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. So when scientists ask people to rate the amusement park rides for how dangerous they were or risky, if they had a hard to say name, the exact same ride description was rated as to being more dangerous. Back to Podcast.

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Redefining Success In Sales With The Unsold Mindset

Duct Tape Marketing

They were giving us names of people that were not salespeople. He's like, this guy went to the University of Minnesota. And then, you know, one more second looks back up and he goes, but Bob Dylan went to the University of Minnesota. I'm just gonna call the 28th name on this list of 50 people that I have to talk to that day.

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

Founded in 1902, 3M was once known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985.

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Kevin Durant Could Teach Businesses a Thing or Two

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Kevin Durant, former star of the Oklahoma City Thunder, announced that he would be leaving the city where he made his name to play for the Golden State Warriors, and people had some feelings about it. In Minnesota, Stephon Marbury couldn’t handle making less money than Kevin Garnett. OKC fans are devastated and angry.