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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

. —————- 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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[Singapore] Designs On A New Furniture Future

YoungUpstarts

By 2008, around 50-percent of local furniture companies had shifted labor-intensive manufacturing operations to less expensive countries such as neighboring Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, and increasingly to China as well. ” Oon founders Poon Yew Wai and Lee Yoon Sheng. .

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Roberts Engineering Building University College London Torrington Place (@ Malet Place) WC1E 6BT London Monday, January 16- London England Business Leaders Network Event At 6pm I’ll take the stage to talk about the ideas behind The Lean Startup and what it means to apply those ideas in practice.

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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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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). Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

My first week on the base our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. I found a job in Ann Arbor working as a field engineer. Some of them saw death up close.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

My first week on the base our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. I found a job in Ann Arbor working as a field engineer. Some of them saw death up close.

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