Sentences with phrase «blank said»

He's one of the best basketball players ever right now, and he's just incredible, and it was just unreal to see him at the school supporting us,» Jonathan Blank said.
How tough a line on diversity founders and CEOs are willing to take with investors will vary by the stage and success of an enterprise, Blank said.
«A woman who really wants ovarian cancer screening and does not have an indication for it or any symptoms would have to convince her doctor to order the tests,» Blank said.
But they will, Blank said.
The report's innovative feature, Blank said, is its analysis not just of total emissions, but emissions per dollar of economic output - what the agency calls «CO2 intensity.»
«This underscores the value of energy efficiency programs, as well as the Energy Star program,» Blank said, adding that she expected household emissions to have improved from 2006 to 2010, given recent government incentives to weatherize and improve efficiency.
«We're ecstatic,» Blank said.
Owner Arthur Blank said Ryan «needs to be compensated well, and he will be» after Ryan was named the MVP following the 2016 Super Bowl season.
Anyway, that's what Arthur Blank said back in 2014.
«The design — and Smitty felt strongly, Mike Nolan felt strongly about this, I think Thomas was certainly supportive of it — Thomas had strong feelings that we needed to get more pressure,» Blank said.
Blank said he realized what he'd learned when he returned to college after the Air Force and was trying to register for classes.
«You can describe that until you're blue in the face, but unless you've lived through it you never had the context,» Blank said.
Here are five ways Blank said the military prepared him to become a successful entrepreneur.
Citing modern issues, such as monetization of data by tech giants — like Google and Facebook — as well as widespread fake news, Blank said that graduates are entering into a world of uncertainties, where computers might even start creating videos with fake information.
And that's exciting, Steve Blank says.
Startup expert Steve Blank says passionate, experienced entrepreneurs can be successful even without the youthful energy they once had.
«While you may be smart, you're not smarter than the collective intelligence of your potential customers,» Blank says.
Knowing these things about your customers will help you sell to them, Lean Startup pioneer Steve Blank says.
Among the other lessons learned in the Lean LaunchPad class for healthcare, Blank says, were: It's better to focus on one product and target market rather than trying to do everything right out of the gate.
Blank says he initially thought the lean startup model wouldn't work in healthcare, but then he realized the prototypical customer had changed to the point where entrepreneurs could indeed learn something by surveying their markets first.
«The only thing you don't have is any real customer data,» Blank says.
«They were spectacular,» Blank says.
I'm teaching a methodology,» Blank says.
Part of the problem is educators» adherence to traditional thinking, and schools» reliance on pedants rather than innovators to deliver entrepreneurship education, Blank says.
Startup investors, Blank says, don't even look at business plans; they're not expecting a five - year forecast, they want to know if the product will sell, and how a company creates value for investors and customers.
About a quarter to a third of the teams in Blank's Lean LaunchPad classes at Haas actually launch a startup, Blank says.
«The teaching team had pre-calculated we were going to make an example out of them,» Blank says.
Different kinds of startups need distinctive strategies to make sales, Lean Startup pioneer Steve Blank says.
Set your idea apart by doing this research before meeting with venture capitalists, startup expert Steve Blank says.
Tarac chief executive Jeremy Blanks said on Tuesday the company was planning multiple uses for the site under a «business park» theme.
The fact that you think «because Arthur Blank says so» counts as evidence of anything other than what Arthur Blank wants you to believe is... charming.

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Even a blank page says something.
• Mudrick Capital Acquisition, a New York City - based blank check company formed to acquire a post-bankruptcy business, said it raised $ 200 million in an IPO of 20 million units priced at $ 10 a piece.
«Many companies similar to yours count on me to... fill in the blank,» she says.
... And my mother, said «Oh, don't worry about it, with your imagination you'll learn to fill in all the blanks,»» explains Corcoran, who was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child.
Until the «United States and other associates» find a credible political ally and viable alternative to President Bashar al - Assad inside Syria, the balance of power within the country will not change, says Stephen Blank of the American Foreign Policy Council.
«The idea was that Lenny could be more obnoxious than a real person, and tell people point - blank that they're idiots not to shop around» says Lebda.
As a British expat living in New York, I can tell you with absolute certainty that there's nothing worse than saying something to an American and being met with a blank stare or a stifled giggle.
«It's a blank slate,» said Brian Screnar, who was finance director for Obama's 2009 inaugural committee.
In an interview with NBC News, Trump also said he'd asked Comey point - blank if he was under investigation and was assured three times he was not.
Show me a Wall Street pundit who says «I was wrong» and I'll show you... I don't know... something graphic and horrible and impossible [fill in blank].
«After buying RelateIQ, Benioff was going to call everything «blank IQ,» but when he saw the traction IBM was getting with Watson, he wanted something else, and Einstein was born,» said one source close to Salesforce who insisted on anonymity.
Not all military specialties are created equally, but in Blank's case, he says his military training was a path to success in Silicon Valley.
Blank, who recently spent two weeks in Chile lecturing about innovation, says Start - Up Chile could offer a breakthrough model for other small countries hoping to create a start - up climate.
To say it wasn't respected was an understatement,» Blank told me.
Fast - forward a few years: When Blank faced tough days in the first companies he started, he said he would think back to that moment.
Chile's initiative is impressive, says Steve Blank, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
«Startups are not just about the idea, they're about testing and implementing the idea,» says serial - entrepreneur Steve Blank.
But many business schools are struggling to leave old dogma behind, says Blank, an eight - time tech entrepreneur.
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