Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Although our experience in Vietnam would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. The Vietnam War would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Winning our wars remains-as MacArthur characterized- the military’s fixed and inviolable mission. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Although our experience in Vietnam would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. The Vietnam War would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Winning our wars remains-as MacArthur characterized- the military’s fixed and inviolable mission. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.

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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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Being an engineer by training and launching Insight Data Science means that there is a part of me that definitely misses “building”. I am the daughter of a refugee of the Vietnam war who grew up in inner city Toronto. Nowadays, it’s very rare that I can’t take a meeting within a day or two if I deem it to be high priority.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2010

Air Force Pacific Command in the middle of the Vietnam War. Outside our air-conditioned shop, the nights were still warm and muggy as other maintenance technicians were also working through the night repairing all the broken parts of fighter planes; navigation, radar, jet engines, etc. The Night Shift. Roachclip’s personal file.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

In the early 1970’s, as some of you might remember, our country was in the middle of the Vietnam War—-and the Air Force was happy to have me. My job was to replace failed electronic warfare equipment in fighter planes as they returned from bombing missions over North Vietnam. The answer turned out to be a war.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2012

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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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Threat actors aren’t below the idea of using hot topics, occasions, or popular personalities in their social engineering strategies to commit crimes. At the beginning of March, a cybersecurity firm in Vietnam identified a hacking group with the code name Mustang Panda, which was sponsored by China.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. I am also a pilot, and computer engineer, and love to read stories about sigint and black aircraft programs. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

This week’s essay is inspired by my reading the book Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy. I am very well read in military history from the Civil War through Vietnam, which you regular followers will know I find more instructive on management and leadership principles than most business books on those topics. This was accomplished.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. That’s what scientists and engineers needed to embrace. Errol : And we did. What made him call Steve?

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Steve Blank

JULY 12, 2010

The Vietnam War had just ended and I was out of the Air Force back in college living in Ann Arbor Michigan. Unlike my previous attempt at college as a pre-med, four years working with electronics convinced me that perhaps I ought to study engineering. There was only one job that I quit when I feared for my life. Life Is Good.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I gravitated toward STEM as a child, which led me to pursue degrees in engineering. And my mother, who was a refugee of the Vietnam war and worked everyday of her life when she set foot on Canadian soil for 35 years, inspired me. I was my grandparents’ only granddaughter, growing up with my brother and three male cousins.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. 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. I not only knew about my equipment but everyone else’s in the shop. I was always kind of curious.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It’s about setting up my software development centre from scratch in Vietnam. Young, talented software engineers and testers can be hired for very competitive wages there. Here, my proudest achievement isn’t measured in terms of dollars or awards. Some had even moved to be nearer to the office!

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

alone, topping half a million — exceeding the number of deaths across World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined) to devastating economic burdens ( exacerbating pre-pandemic record levels of income inequality). The pandemic has been devastating in many ways — from total number of deaths (in the U.S.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Vietnam, for example, has strong tech adoption and has nearly 100m people. For example, if you are an entrepreneur building a new kind of autonomous vehicle, you really need to have a strong engineering background. This is still a really large market, though. Thailand has nearly 70m people.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Vietnam, for example, has strong tech adoption and has nearly 100m people. For example, if you are an entrepreneur building a new kind of autonomous vehicle, you really need to have a strong engineering background. This is still a really large market, though. Thailand has nearly 70m people.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). So I enlisted in the Air Force during the Vietnam War to learn how to repair electronics. While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. Some of them saw death up close.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). So I enlisted in the Air Force during the Vietnam War to learn how to repair electronics. While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. Some of them saw death up close.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. Thanks to Susan Smith, Velden Engineering ! #5- My parents were both refugees from Vietnam and had to support a family of five.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

While big ideas are engines for change, often times it’s in fact the boring details that are the single biggest determinants of entrepreneurial success. Often times, the people will have you believe that accomplished entrepreneurs had their success purely by dint of the invincibility of their irresistible ideas.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 24, 2009

As a 20-year old in Thailand in the middle of the chaos of the Vietnam War, my days were filled being a infinitesimal part of the synchronized machinery of maintaining, arming, and launching row after row of fighter planes parked in their revetments –. My kids are now almost the age I was long ago at another Christmas. So This is Christmas.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers. We came out of Vietnam. We came out of the Great Depression.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

More recently, US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China has led to apprehension that US-based companies will be moving their production from Chinese manufacturers to factories in other low-cost countries such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. Few other countries can match China in this – be it India, Thailand or Vietnam.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

was fully engaged in the war in Vietnam. While we were living the good life in Thailand, the Army and Marines were pounding the jungle every day in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War ~ 9,000 aircraft and helicopters were destroyed. Captain Jeremiah Costello and his A-7D was the last attack aircraft shot down in the Vietnam War.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Wang Hai, chief executive of shoemaker Doublestar noted that it was his experience in the Vietnam War that gave him the willpower to compete in the shoe market. “To But Kuhn never touched on what Wang did to engineer the turnaround at Doublestar after approaching the stores, leaving readers with more questions than answers.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Housing is cheap in the Central Valley, but the cost of living is even cheaper in India and Vietnam. What happens to them if this really is a boom about to go bust, or if industry concentration follows the Andreesen model, or if big tech simply decides that instead of importing Indian engineers, it’s more expedient to move to India?

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