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

Steve Blank

In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military. They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. ” We certainly did.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. As for #3.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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Am I a Startup? – Tomcar

Start Up Blog

Who is moving to Silicon Valley, who got funded and who just pivoted. It’s as if there was no such thing as a ‘new business’ before the internet and silicon valley arrived. It was organised by Ned Dwyer as his startup ‘ Tweaky.com ‘ had just reached profitability.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Steve Blank

Dave : We’re trying to take a lot of the stuff that you’ve done with the Lean LaunchPad methodology and move that out across university into the other schools. . What’s more, as the Lean Startup revolution has gone mainstream, Dave said, it has started to change the trajectory of our economy. I’m seeing it in real time.