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

Steve Blank

Stanford designed Klystrons producing 2½ Megawatts were manufactured by Varian and Litton would power the radar in the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) built at the height of the cold war.) Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. It Takes a Village.

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Closure

Steve Blank

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design. The reality was that the U.S. Love it… Great closure.

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Ardent War Story 4: You Know You're Getting Close to Your.

Steve Blank

Simulation applications After six months, we hypothesized that our most likely customers were scientists and engineers who used one of five applications: computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, computational chemistry and seismic data processing and reservoir simulation. You can’t understand customers from inside your building.