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

Steve Blank

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.

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

Steve Blank

The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management. It Takes a Village.

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What Startups Need to Know About Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

It is a personal tale of someone who was deep inside politics – Tusk was deputy governor of Illinois, Mike Bloomberg’s campaign manager, Senator Charles Schumer’s communication director, and ran Uber’s first successful campaign to get regulatory approval in New York. follows the golden rule – he who has the gold makes the rules.

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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. Cray called two years ago and bought it back for parts for an unnamed customer still running one.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Ali Abbas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Principal Investigator: Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology. Here are links to their Lessons Learned presentations. Silicon Terahertz Electronics.

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

Steve Blank

Lessons learned : To sell to customers you need to understand them: how they work, what they do and what problem you will solve for them. You can’t understand customers from inside your building. via Ardent War Story 4: You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job « S… [.]