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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. You find early stage employees expecting to work normal hours, to get paid a regular salary, and not asking or expecting equity. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Lessons Learned.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Equally of interest is a good number of them end up in the PLA’s GSD 3 rd Department (the equivalent of our National Security Agency. ) Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. They come so far, and yet….

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Equally of interest is a good number of them end up in the PLA’s GSD 3 rd Department (the equivalent of our National Security Agency. ) Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. They come so far, and yet….

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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Or, are you an established business that wants to secure your future? Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. Better lines of communication.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks. Are You Single?

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies. McMicking and Terman introduced Ampex to the National Security Agency, and Ampex sales boomed when their audio and video recorders became the standard for Electronic Intelligence and telemetry signal collection recorders.