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Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. military to rearm and mobilize.

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Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. Could this self perception (in combination with higher screen resolutions making serifs more viable),be why 50 major websites seemed to have changed their perspective on serifs between early 2009 and late 2013? image source.

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In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In November 2009 Google acquired mobile ad company AdMob for $750 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In November 2009 Google acquired mobile ad company AdMob for $750 million.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

McMicking and Terman introduced Ampex to the National Security Agency, and Ampex sales boomed when their audio and video recorders became the standard for Electronic Intelligence and telemetry signal collection recorders. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. In response, one of the many U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Meanwhile the U.S.

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