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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. Yet while the U.S.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project – the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. developed a new strategy in the late 1970’s to counter the Warsaw Pact. Instead of matching the U.S.S.R. After the war the U.S. split up the functions of the OSRD.