Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Soon I began to pester the head of the department about this new idea I had… that startups are not smaller versions of large companies. Actually they’re entirely different.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And we filled it with racks of receivers and displays , wire and strip recorders and communications intercept equipment that could search the electromagnetic spectrum from 50 megahertz to 3 gigahertz, and this is 1943. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Play spooky music here.

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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. Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

So, of course, as soon as he was gone, I went searching for a spare wool blanket…and found one in a supply cabinet. Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Some 2 million students have trained there since it opened in 1942.

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