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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. In the 20 th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. A Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) could electronically tune through microwave frequencies at 1000 times faster than any other device, and it could operate in a frequency range measured in gigahertz.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board.)