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

Steve Blank

If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. 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.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The offset strategy was smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth using silicon chips, electronics and computers that only the U.S. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.