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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. Sales in their first fiscal year were $1.5 A contract for a system named O’Malley followed.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant.