Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. F-117 Nighthawk - 1st Stealth Ground Attack Plane These changes in American defense policy spooked the Soviets.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Shawn Gupta of OhLife , a personal journaling tool over email, has similar sentiments in using metrics to drive product innovation: Make metrics a core part of our product development. I asked the CEO’s of the companies that I work with, ”What are your company related new years resolutions?” Improve the product.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems. These technologies which allowed the U.S.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

It always feels anachronistic these days to exchange business cards when you usually have someone’s contact information anyway in an electronic format before (via email introduction) or just after (via LinkedIn connection) you meet. johnsmith@startup.com <– Precision trumps brevity in this startup. What else am I missing?

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