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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. In building ESL Perry made a conscious choice to emulate Hewlett Packard (then considered the “gold standard” of a great technology company.) The “customers’” contracts funded the company.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

A finalist in the Health and Wearables Technology category, AirPop is pioneering the innovation of air wearables for personal and public health. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before? I attended in 2007.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Stanford as a Center of Microwave and Electronics In 1946 after running the military’s secret 800 person Electronic Warfare Lab at Harvard, Fred Terman returned to Stanford as the dean of the engineering schoo l.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Then think some more. I was always kind of curious.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. (Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

While it may seem like an easy choice, few people who love technology and who work on black projects leave. They were national efforts of hundreds of companies employing 10’s or 100’s of thousands of engineers. These technologies which allowed the U.S. These technologies which allowed the U.S. Let me explain why.