Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2018
While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. Ben Wegbreit, the VP of Engineering (one of my mentors and then co-founder of Epiphany), broke his foot skiing just as the company started. And back then they were all men.)
Steve Blank
JANUARY 5, 2023
Original Problem Statement: How might we implement a ubiquitous secure global access to the internet in order to help circumvent censorship in authoritarian regimes? Beyond the classroom, the course plunges students into getting “out of the building” to iterate quickly while translating learnings to the real world.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. Leaving the parking lot, the engineering managers in the back row of the van argued. Humility had crumbled the walls between marketing and engineering. No one listened!”. Are you nuts ?”
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. faces in a global, interconnected system. Not unlike big legacy systems in the military.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman , Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering. and globally. The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 7, 2011
—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finnish startup successes on a global stage include MySQL , F-Secure , Rovio , Habbo , Playfish , The Switch , Tectia , Trulia and Linux.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Their leadership has shown incredible foresight in engineering an amazing economic engine and formidable military.
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