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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital.

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

Steve Blank

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.

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

Steve Blank

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. The eventual goal of this program would have been to radar-map the Soviet Union. The crash program to produce the Lockheed U-2 aircraft was initiated when the balloon program was abandoned. By 1947 the U.S.

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. These programs dwarfed the size that any single commercial company could do by itself. During the cold war, the U.S. government kept up the pace.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.