Engineer Product Development Programming Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. The table below summarizes a few of the salient differences.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. Starting now.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?
Steve Blank
JANUARY 14, 2013
Office of Scientific Research and Development – Scientists Against Time. As World War II approached, Vannevar Bush , the ex-dean of engineering at MIT, single-handledly reengineered the U.S. Nearly 10,000 scientists and engineers received draft deferments to work in these labs. governments approach to science and warfare.
Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Berkeley were heavily funded to develop Cold War weapon systems. At the same time Berkeley was also developing Cold War weapons systems. However its focus was nuclear weapons – not something you wanted to be spinning out. Today the U.C.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) are all expensive and potentially fatal distractions if done before you have found product/market fit and a repeatable sales model.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 17, 2011
A new incubator program, Imagine K12 , launched today in Palo Alto aimed specifically at building entrepreneurship in the education space. Founded by three Silicon Valley veterans - Tim Brady, Alan Louie, and Geoff Ralston - Imagine K12 will support early stage ed-tech startups through a funding and mentorship program.
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