Customer Development Design Stealth Vertical 
news.ycombinator.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 28, 2009
Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.
Steve Blank
JULY 23, 2009
to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2009
Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. bombers. (The
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