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Creating a movement

VC Cafe

Leadership is over glorified. I did a quick search online and came up short. We’re now over 500 strong, and have raised over $500,000 which were used to build 6 schools, 14 libraries and 300 scholarships for girls in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Tanzania. The first follower makes the leader a leader.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

And we filled it with racks of receivers and displays , wire and strip recorders and communications intercept equipment that could search the electromagnetic spectrum from 50 megahertz to 3 gigahertz, and this is 1943. We stripped out B-24 bombers, took out all the bomb racks, took out all the bombs and even took out all the guns.

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

Steve Blank

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. And just to make the problem harder, the North Vietnamese had shot down B-52s in December 1972 and given the Soviets the captured electronic countermeasures equipment.

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

So, of course, as soon as he was gone, I went searching for a spare wool blanket…and found one in a supply cabinet. Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War. I remember asking out of the blue one day, “Where does our equipment come from, what is exactly that we’re doing?”

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I also grew up with a father who had traditional values around gender roles, favoring female domesticity over entrepreneurship and leadership. For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. He didn’t believe that women should be in business.

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“What Unites Us” —Important Lessons from @danrather at the #UpfrontSummit

Both Sides of the Table

He was a pioneer in reporting the civil rights struggle, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, The Gulf War and so many more historical moments in our history. Hitler undermined the press and the courts and importantly placed his loyalists in the intelligence services and undermined military and judicial leadership.

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