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

Steve Blank

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

Brandon teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. We were hiring our first employee … we didn’t have a lot of (money in the bank), we only had one grant $350,000 at the moment. We said, “Well, we’re going to hire our first employee, and you know what? Brandon : Yeah.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

After been stationed at three fighter bases in Thailand ( Ubon , Udorn and Korat ) and working on Electronic Warfare suites on F-4’s, A-7’s, F-105’s and AC-130’s, I got orders to report to a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber base in Alpena Michigan. Imagine how hot, humid and unbearable the weather was in Thailand. Reply Ben C. ,

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&# Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. You are coordinating customers by email. Those are the things that we have to do, and that’s what email for. It probably is.

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