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

Steve Blank

And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? In contrast, spark gaps are broad-band radio “noise&# sources – the idea of discrete radio channels was impossible spark gaps because of this. What created this microwave startup culture in the 1950′s?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. How To Get There&# recommends you focus on building a product and forget … Ron VC capital too early is a fail for sure, I agree with that 100%. I think I just really feared working for the Man.