Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. It’s not something I’ve heard often from those in the technology sphere. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.) It may not be for you. If you can do that you may find a clearer playing field.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2014

After all, how many of us look forward to getting spam emails from businesses we don’t know or open an envelope with an invitation to a “free” event we know is rigged to sell us something we don’t want? Throw the old assumptions away about how people use technology, and ask. Is outbound marketing finally dead?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Then think some more. The Story Behind the Secret History Part II.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Messaging / email generally works. Vietnam, for example, has strong tech adoption and has nearly 100m people. Obviously, the US still has plenty of big opportunities ahead of it – more on that below – but the low-hanging fruit around “infrastructure” has been established. CRMs / marketing tech generally work. Payments work.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Messaging / email generally works. Vietnam, for example, has strong tech adoption and has nearly 100m people. Obviously, the US still has plenty of big opportunities ahead of it – more on that below – but the low-hanging fruit around “infrastructure” has been established. CRMs / marketing tech generally work. Payments work.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

My fondness for libraries and my reading habit carried through to the Air Force, and this technical school had an awesome technology library. Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War. I remember asking out of the blue one day, “Where does our equipment come from, what is exactly that we’re doing?”

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