Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Chess is only fun for those who have the requisite skill to play well – and even then, only if there are ranking systems to make sure that players of relatively equal skill play each other. If you could buy a higher chess ranking or, worse, simply grow it by logging more hours, that would ruin the system for everyone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? And no one who really knew could tell you.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Clueless about the chess game being played in Washington, I was just a minion in a corporate halfway house in between my military career and entrepreneurship. All You Can Read Without a Library Card It was 1978. Here I was, a very junior employee of ESL, a company with its hands in the heart of our Cold War strategy.

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