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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.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. She said, “Dad what I meant was that growing up we loved when we traveled. And as kids we never had any idea which was cheap and which was expensive.

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Customer Analytics - From Those Who Should Know

Steve Blank

In the first part, they talk about the problem of bias that comes with doing analysis from any static mindset and they give plenty of examples of how a mindset acts as a filter that EXCLUDES ALL INFORMATION that doesn’t fit (Pearl Harbor, Cuban missile crisis, India’s nuclear testing, etc.). Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. to store it.

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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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly.

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