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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. In building ESL Perry made a conscious choice to emulate Hewlett Packard (then considered the “gold standard” of a great technology company.) If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born.

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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. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF).