Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The first electronics company in Silicon Valley was Federal Telegraph , a tube company started in 1909 in Palo Alto as Poulsen Wireless. By 1912, Lee Deforest working at Federal Telegraph would invent the Triode , (a tube amplifier) and would go on to become the Steve Jobs of his day – visionary, charismatic and controversial.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The new building telegraphed to our employees, “We’ve arrived. While offices for everyone sound good on paper, moving everyone out of cubicles destroyed a culture of tight-knit interaction and communication. Individuals within departments were isolated, and the size and scale of the building isolated departments from each other.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The character and tenor of the icons you use can immediately telegraph the nature of the application, who it is aimed at and how sophisticated it is meant to be," said Barrett. Tags: startupcto. Blue hues indicate stability (large companies love blue: IBM, Ford, IKEA, etc.), and green means responsible and eco-friendly."

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