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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. Saul quotes Theodore Levitt (Harvard Business School Professor), “People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.” New Jersey: Wiley & Sons, 2012), pg. 2] (Kaplan, 2012), pg.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. The Thiel Foundation president points out that “the safe career track is totally broken.” Hear me out. This is true.