Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In fact, he believes (and its been historically proven that) this can be a method of securing funding 1) Concept 2) Business Plan 3) Test Hypothesis 4) Customer Proof 5) Lessons Learned 6) Series A. [.] is quite good. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. From security inks to sunlight harvesting with windows, your product range is wide. Plants love it. Solar cells like near-infrared light best, and plants prefer yellow/orange/red.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

I have seen other friends come from very stable environments who fall apart in chaos and feed off of security. Reply Kamal Ravikant , on May 26, 2009 at 11:07 pm Said: Interestingly, this is exactly what Hemingway said when asked for the one trait a great writer needed.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America. And that is a great entrepreneurial setup. That’s data.

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Steve Blank

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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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

Selected startups pitch on the Startup stage as part of their Startup Pack, judged by a panel of investors & leaders for each vertical. The best of each vertical is automatically entered into the final pitchoff for the Innovation of Things Award on the afternoon of May 17th. What are the verticals for the pitching competition?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

This increased speed and capacity will require extensive infrastructure investments including “vertical real estate,” like towers and other tall structures; new data centers to process the increased information load; and much more. But other cities seem to be dragging their feet. So why are cities reluctant to embrace 5G?

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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it. It pushed us to think about all kinds of secure computing, federated learning, more modern encryption. There’s no doubt about it.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it. It pushed us to think about all kinds of secure computing, federated learning, more modern encryption. There’s no doubt about it.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

a pioneer and dominant market player in the development and delivery of intelligent security solutions over IP networks, is buying ioimage, a leader in intelligent video appliances. AWARD-WINNING MARKET LEADER DVTEL ACQUIRES ISRAELI ANALYTICS LEADER IOIMAGE FOR $80 MLN. DVTel, Inc., DVTel, Inc.,

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As sessions switch to https (secure experience), it is difficult for prying eyes to peek through and know that a conversion happen. I'm so surprised that California is missing from the top 7. The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. It is not totally impossible.

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