Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. — When Michael and his father started the Robert Mondavi Winery, few people were drinking California wines.

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APRIL 15, 2016

Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. — When Michael and his father started the Robert Mondavi Winery, few people were drinking California wines.

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JULY 1, 2009

The National Security Agency has a great website on the subject. I can’t get this one out of my head. ———— The VENONA Project One of the most interesting (declassified) stories of cryptography is the deciphering of Soviet communications to their diplomatic missions in the U.S during World War II. .

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JULY 2, 2015

His responsibilities include establishing the partnership frameworks between government, private sector, and academia needed to deliver end-use solutions to national security challenges (cybersecurity, undersea warfare, communications, etc.). He connects the Lab with the defense user community. Listen to my entire chat with Matt.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– 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. Cray called two years ago and bought it back for parts for an unnamed customer still running one.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Result : I’ll admit my hesitancy was because I brought my memories of U.S.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Result : I’ll admit my hesitancy was because I brought my memories of U.S.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war.

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JULY 20, 2009

I tried to clear my head and remember what else I had said, like anything that would be really, really, really bad to say outside of a secure facility. Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Among other things, A-List carries the significant benefit of being able to skip ahead of long airport security lines in the “Fly By Lane.” One would think the combination of being an A-Lister flying on a Business Select fare ought to be the textbook definition of “ valuable customer.”

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JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F.

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MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. This is the End.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished in 10 weeks.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. Although all the manuals were in safes, the whole site was so secure that anybody who had access to that site had access to everything – including other compartmentalized systems that had nothing to do with me – and that I wasn’t cleared for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. Silicon Valley’s development is intimately entwined with the long history of industrialization and innovation in the larger San Francisco Bay Area.

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MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. What is it that’s unique about the market I’m in? We’ll talk about the implications of what vertical market you’re entering in the next few posts.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) That same year Laurance Rockefeller founded Rockefeller Brothers, Inc. with a check for $1.5 million. (23 23 years later they would rename the firm Venrock.) ARD was a publicly traded venture capital firm (raising $3.5

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

McMicking and Terman introduced Ampex to the National Security Agency, and Ampex sales boomed when their audio and video recorders became the standard for Electronic Intelligence and telemetry signal collection recorders. The McMicking’s bought 50% of Ampex for $365,000 (some liken this to the first VC investment in the valley.)

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2015

This course from the University of California, Irvine Continuing Education department, will introduce you to the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial process and how to recognize business opportunities. See Also How to Secure Funding for Your Startup (with INFOGRAPHIC).

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories which used supercompurters to run their hydrodynamics codes to simulate what went on in the first microseconds in a nuclear weapon and the National Security Agency (with Cray putting in a special population count hardware instruction) used to facilitate decryption of codes.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Cloud Security. Customer Development. Evolution Securities. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Campuscred.

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