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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. can we make a product out of this technology?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 3, 2009
Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System. Thanks Eric.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?" Turns out, I had been lecturing the creator of the ActiveX security model. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Stanford and MIT were building on the technology breakthroughs of World War II and graduating a generation of engineers into a consumer and cold war economy that seemed limitless. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. Whitney Co. million.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2009
These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Davis (an ex- WWII OSS agent) then a VP at the Kern Land Company got involved with investing in technology companies through Fred Terman.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? Now they hate their jobs and have no job security or path to becoming really wealthy.
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