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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe. We told Andy we’d talk further when he got back from Europe. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Glad you two called, we were trying to get a hold of you guys.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

And while the Soviets are fighting the Germans in massive land battles in eastern Europe, until the allies invade Western Europe in June 1944, the only way the U.S. Bear with me as this history takes you from the skies of Europe to Fred Terman.) And they got it coming and going to the target.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35). 37:00-40:30).

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

Steve Blank

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.)

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Yet while the U.S. In response the U.S.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. Meanwhile the U.S. monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

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