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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

In World War II he headed up something called the Harvard Radio Research Lab. Ferrets and Crows – Signals Intelligence The first job of the secret lab was to find and understand the German air defense system. Jam It and Shut it Down - E lectronic Warfare But this secret lab was focused on electronic warfare. So the U.S.

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

Steve Blank

The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

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Alex Schleifer , GM of the Media Lab at SAY Media. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb. Best of RWW. Featured: ReadWriteCloud | RWW Solution Series. The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back). Subscribe. E-mail This.

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Interesting Model for University President

SoCal CTO

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Taking sympathy on me, the HR person made a few calls, and said, “Sure, but he doesn’t have the budget for a lab tech. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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

Steve Blank

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

This wave of 1950′s/’60′s startups (Watkins-Johnson, Varian, Huggins Labs, MEC, Stewart Engineering, etc.) Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. to do that.