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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

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The Innovation State of the Union

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Unfortunately the US government has muddied the waters by not implementing real industrial and technology policies.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this?

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Now Hear This

Steve Blank

Fourth, as a public official in the State of California , to offer a window on how public policy on California Coastal protection gets made. Clearshore is a “matchmaker&# that helps small businesses get their fair share of the $60-billion US government budget for R&D and innovation.

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I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help You

Steve Blank

My only excuse is that this week I’m doing public service in my role as a California Coastal Commissioner. Those of you with a reader still have it.) (Something you can appreciate if you’ve read my class text on Customer Development.) Long days, lots of items on the calendar , dedicated staff, very bright fellow commissioners.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply Anthony , on April 7, 2009 at 1:10 pm Said: “One candidate got a C in macroeconomics…That’s troubling to me.