Steve Blank

AUGUST 7, 2009

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

My story is the story about women’s independence in Vietnam and the greeting cards that will promote it: I am very happy to announce that we just launched Popwish. It’s been down to the wire this summer on a new gardening product launch for New Leaf Technologies. We are looking forward to a great year. 5 – New Business.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

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. They are never any better than the top leadership. Management is a textbook subject ; leadership is a gift.

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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. It’s not something I’ve heard often from those in the technology sphere. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.) It may not be for you. If you can do that you may find a clearer playing field.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

Meanwhile, the United States has already lost more lives to the disease than the entire Vietnam War and unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression. It is a risky strategy, but it is the right strategy for outracing the other players when competing for enduring leadership in a winner-take-most market.

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Up and Running

MAY 25, 2012

If you’re venturing into the apparel market, you’ll have to visit China and Vietnam where the major garment factories are located. Use that wifi, encrypted, 24/7 technology to stay in touch. And oh yes… travel. If you decide to produce toilets, sinks and showers, you’ll have to go to Japan. Find out what they’re doing.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

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. Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Then think some more. The Story Behind the Secret History Part II.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

My fondness for libraries and my reading habit carried through to the Air Force, and this technical school had an awesome technology library. 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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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company. You're pulling data from public sources. What's it been like to be on the other side of that?

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