Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

The National Security Agency has a great website on the subject. I can’t get this one out of my head. ———— The VENONA Project One of the most interesting (declassified) stories of cryptography is the deciphering of Soviet communications to their diplomatic missions in the U.S during World War II. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Although all the manuals were in safes, the whole site was so secure that anybody who had access to that site had access to everything – including other compartmentalized systems that had nothing to do with me – and that I wasn’t cleared for. Twenty times more technical reading than just my equipment. We could do what!? From where??)

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “ Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories used supercomputers to run their hydrodynamics codes for nuclear weapon design and the National Security Agency used them to decrypt codes. Cray called two years ago and bought it back for parts for an unnamed customer still running one. A entrepreneur’s idea of closure. What a deal.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Harvard Business School professor and early evangelist for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, Doriot was the Fred Terman of the East Coast. Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) Whitney Co. with a check for $1.5 million. (23

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AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

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. Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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