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Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes

Steve Blank

When I got to my first airbase my job was lugging electronics boxes on and off fighter planes under the broiling hot Thailand sun, to bring them into the technicians inside the air-conditioned shop, to troubleshoot and fix. Wrote technical manuals and taught microprocessor design (to customers who knew more than I did.)

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

It is literally the gateway to the United States or as Mayor Garcetti points out we are “the capital of the pacific rim” We are the only city in America with 3 of the top 25 universities in the country and we graduate more engineers now in LA than anywhere else in the country.

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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

More recently, US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China has led to apprehension that US-based companies will be moving their production from Chinese manufacturers to factories in other low-cost countries such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. Few other countries can match China in this – be it India, Thailand or Vietnam.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.

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[Singapore] Designs On A New Furniture Future

YoungUpstarts

Amidst the elaborate show booths featuring all manner of furniture, interior decorations, construction materials and even hand-carved decorative wooden ships, you’ll find a creative space displaying examples of some of the more quirky, fun yet practical furniture designs within the entire exhibition. Designed in Singapore.

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Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die

Steve Blank

Most of the fighter planes used to support the war were based in Thailand , or from aircraft carriers (or for some B-52 bombers, in Guam.) While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. Life in a War Zone. In the early 1970’s the U.S. He’s Not Coming Back.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

In fact, in college I used to joke that Electrical and Computer Engineers could write better code that Computer Scientists (not something I would argue about as voraciously now). Industrial Design: Design matters. Rarely does a startup produce an awe inspiring product design by doing the design in-house.