Steve Blank

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

Before starting CirkledIn , Reetu Gupta spent 20 years in corporate America doing internal startups as well as marketing and engineering work at Fortune 50 companies including AT&T Wireless and Honeywell. — For Reetu, coming to America from India marked a watershed moment: I always felt I was a misfit in India.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see Anja Manuel ‘s talk click here . Lessons Learned. 20 th Century U.S.-centric

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel

Steve Blank

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see Anja Manuel ‘s talk click here . Lessons Learned. 20 th Century U.S.-centric

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

Steve Blank

In 1955, the pretense of keeping unclassified and classified work separate imposed too much of an administrative overhead and Stanford merged the Applied Electronics Lab and the Electronics Research Laboratory into the Systems Engineering Lab. The Applied Electronics portion of the lab was now the size of a small company.

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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

The energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S. Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria.

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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. After I was done teaching each the day, I continued to write the operations manuals and work with the test engineers. (I Are You Single? Sign me up.

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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

The energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S. Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria.

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