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Fly High

Steve Blank

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. They specify, design and build a project that may be of use. Military Academies.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. They specify, design and build a project that may be of use. Military Academies.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. I concluded that my first job was to understand what Cray’s markets, customers and applications. A supercomputer could be a 100x faster. What Markets?

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

— As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”. But it’s easy to get drowned out by the noise from Silicon Valley and other cities in Washington and Oregon. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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