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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. How was this possible?

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Joby Aviation is turning science fiction into science fact

Reid Hoffman

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Indeed, what Joby ultimately envisions is a new human mobility network that takes short-hop transit from 2D to 3D.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

The arc converter basically used the negative resistance of the an electric arc to cancel the positive resistance of an LC network thereby causing it to oscillate in a pure narrow-band CW frequency (aka Q-tuning). Agilent, of course, was once Hewlett-Packard’s Test & Measurement, Chemical, Components and Medical organizations.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

So at times multiple ELINT planes would fly on a mission – one to run at the Soviet border appearing to attack, the other to pick up the signals from the air defense network as it responded to the intrusion. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.)

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

To protect their country, the Soviets were building an air defense network to warn, track and destroy these attacking bombers. Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII.

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.