My wife and I are vacating our vacation hub of San Jose for the evening and heading up north and west, presumably to the Palo Alto area. After asking around and a quick search here’s the things that the area is most known for.
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Steve Blank at 22
Steve Blank Shares His Life Lessons, You’d be Wise to Listen
In Steve’s post at the end of June, Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA, he shares his early career experiences. He quit his old job and drove across country to Silicon Valley only to find out he was fired before starting at ESL. Turns out the manager who hired him, didn’t have the authority and had been fired. Steve rebounded instantly (maybe the wind got knocked out of him for a moment 
), and talked his way into an training instructor job for a beleagured department in a crunch. After less than a couple months of 80 hour weeks Steve shipped out with the test engineers to Korea. His roomate at the time captured the essence of Steve’s serendipitous career discoveries, “You’re Not So Smart, You Just Show Up a Lot”. That concept goes hand in hand with my simple observation, although they may change course, legendary leader’s just don’t quit. (more…)