Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

This unorthodox idea has become a movement …called The Lean Startup – and has led to entirely new ways to start companies, commercialize science, and think about innovation. Over the last decade I’ve watched the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship take off. When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. I began to realize a few things: First, everything we had done in electronic warfare in the Vietnam War was just a slightly more modern version of what we had done over occupied Europe in World War II. (And making nothing but jammers to put on our bombers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. The Stanford records showed that his group received more funding than any other and I assumed it was for construction of these operational systems.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. Now the Soviets had first hand knowledge of how their air defense systems would work against the nuclear armed B-52G and H models in an operational environment.

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