Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley?
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. military to rearm and mobilize.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 29, 2010
The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. The old continent often looks up to the Valley as a sort of Eldorado of IT. Silicon Valley is a hub. In 2009, business angels invested 160 times more than their counterparts in continental Europe.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. I worry that many people will read this post and get the wrong message.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 13, 2017
Today Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced their support for Global EIR , a cause for which I care deeply. In 2009, I was inspired when two of the ten Techstars Boulder companies that year had international founders. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Technical Marketing Years later in my career I would realize I had simply reinvented what the early pioneers in Silicon Valley knew and did – hiring engineers who were domain experts who could talk as peers to customers and communicate effectively with their own company’s engineers. Context here.)
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