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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

For example, as the semiconductor business started, the largest customers for Fairchild’s and Texas Instruments new integrated circuits were the Apollo Guidance Computer and the guidance system for the Minuteman II ICBM. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China is following the same path.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

For example, as the semiconductor business started, the largest customers for Fairchild’s and Texas Instruments new integrated circuits were the Apollo Guidance Computer and the guidance system for the Minuteman II ICBM. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China is following the same path.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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The Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Pivot

blog.startupsquare.com

2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. Having gone through 51 iterations of my mockups and gathered as much as feedback as I could with our primitive alpha, I feel confident about our basic customer problem hypothesis. This is “Customer Need&# in Eric’s list.

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