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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The Navy had a Rapid Analytical Machines project with hopes to build machines to integrate optics, microfilm and electronics into cryptanalytic tools. Vannevar Bush at MIT was trying to build one for the Navy.) The Navy’s most advanced cryptographic machine work in WWII was building 125 U.S. The company hit the ground running.

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What is a Wastewater Treatability Study, and Why Is It Important for Your Business?

The Startup Magazine

Greywater is composed of water discharged from sinks, washing machines, and showers in commercial buildings, homes, hospitals, or offices. Once the type of wastewater is identified, a company can properly adopt the best treatment approach. . Wastewater exists in two categories: greywater and blackwater. Uncovering the problem.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems. During World War II the United States did something its adversaries did not; it enlisted professors and graduate students as civilians in 105 colleges and universities to build advanced weapon systems — nuclear weapons, radar, etc.

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Why outsourcing innovation is going to be big for the tech industry and beyond

The Next Web

Paul Jozefak, co-founder and managing director of innovation laboratory Liquid Labs , argues that outsourcing innovation will become a mainstream business practice and a key driver of growth, specifically in the tech sector. Innovation within large corporations is often slow and ineffective. Why would you outsource innovation?

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Ramish Zaidi On Top 5 Technologies To Look Forward To In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Voice search assistant is a speech-to-text internet-based technology which enables a user to search anything on the web without typing the query verbally. The root of voice search assistant goes way back in the year 1952 when Bell Laboratories introduced the world’s first speech recognition device —Audry — to the World.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

There seemed to be very few who knew how to coach entrepreneurs and to build companies. I suggested that Chile’s mining industry could contribute to building innovation leadership by funding a multi-tiered initiative in the country’s leading universities: Professional management training (obvious and immediate payback). See below.).

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Reinventing Life Science Startups–Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Steve Blank

But what if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? There are two types of drugs. And why you ought to take this class. ——-. Life Sciences I—Therapeutics and Diagnostics. It was the Age of Wisdom – Drug Discovery.