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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Some students who were getting their engineering graduate degrees wrote masters and PhD thesis that were classified. Terman had sent faculty and graduate students to the University of Illinois in 1953 to learn transistor physics.) The Applied Electronics portion of the lab was now the size of a small company.

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Ardent War Story 4: You Know You're Getting Close to Your.

Steve Blank

Simulation applications After six months, we hypothesized that our most likely customers were scientists and engineers who used one of five applications: computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, computational chemistry and seismic data processing and reservoir simulation. Their interest was easy to understand.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have. You couldn’t read it.