Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2023
The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. In January 1946, they founded Engineering Research Associates (ERA). Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. Parker agreed to invest. The company hit the ground running.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 10, 2020
Roads, streets, bridges, metro lines, and huge skyscrapers everything that we see from the business and corporate buildings to malls for entertainment, is just because of the marvels of civil engineering. In the future, we will witness the role of civil engineers evolve even more as technology is evolving everything and everywhere.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create. What’s holding you back from jumping on the wave?
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
When I read policy papers by government organizations trying to replicate the lessons from the valley, I’m struck how they seem to miss some basic lessons. Regions building a cluster around scalable startups fail to understand that a government agency simply giving money to entrepreneurs who want it is an exercise in failure.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
While other industries have been quick to adapt to freelance employment, architects and engineers within the construction sector have lagged behind — and that is beginning to change. Here’s why the gig economy is coming for architects and engineers. It’s official: The gig economy is coming to construction.
Steve Blank
APRIL 4, 2023
government seriously considered international control over the development of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons and genetic engineering had advocates for unlimited experimentation and unfettered controls. There is a long history of scientists concerned about what they’ve unleashed. In the U.S. Post WWII in 1946 the U.S.
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