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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. I was an idiot.

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I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help You

Steve Blank

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

Steve Blank

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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

Steve Blank

The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Upon his return he became a public figure but he was never allowed an access to any classified information let alone advise the government on SDI – nor anything else for that matter.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Transcript of What Megatrends Will Shape Your Business?

Duct Tape Marketing

He is an innovation and marketing expert and the founder of the Non-Obvious Company which has spawned a number of books under that title, including the one we’re going to talk about today. I hinted that this was, it’s book number 10 in that whole series. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Rohit Bhargava.