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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Stanford designed Klystrons producing 2½ Megawatts were manufactured by Varian and Litton would power the radar in the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) built at the height of the cold war.) Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.]

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) + The Customer Development… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Customer Analytics - From Those Who Should Know

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

As it was a vocational school, I think the most math we had to do was to figure out whether we got a passing grade, and no one was in any danger of actually designing new equipment, but I left with an excellent education in troubleshooting, and solving complex problems in real-time. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. I’ve tried different things in India – sales training, software sales, advising entrepreneurs.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.” were born in India. of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. Let me know what you think. steve Michael F.

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