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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military. Terman had sent faculty and graduate students to the University of Illinois in 1953 to learn transistor physics.)

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Steve Blank

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Ardent War Story 4: You Know You're Getting Close to Your.

Steve Blank

my hotel room was stacked with the journals and textbooks about each vertical market just to keep up with the people we were meeting. (I Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. As I traveled to some of the most arcane trade shows and conferences ( AIAA , SPE , MSC , etc.), To Order Outside of the U.S.