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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

We collaborated at the Los Alamos National Lab, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and University of Illinois. One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon.

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

Steve Blank

Terman had sent faculty and graduate students to the University of Illinois in 1953 to learn transistor physics.) The World Turned Upside Down The Applied Electronics Lab solidified Stanford’s lead as one of, if not the place in the U.S. military for advanced thinking in ELINT and Electronic Warfare.

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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 I had known nothing about supercomputers and numerical simulation applications; now there wasn’t a day that went by that I wasn’t learning something new.

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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.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have.