Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Filed under: Customer Development « Requiem For A Roommate 2 Responses steve , on October 21, 2010 at 7:05 am Said: what did Carl say at 1:12 ? Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Here’s a 6 minute excerpt from the talk. the video skipped or something?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. While existing companies took some of the business, often it was a graduate student or professor who started a new company.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Having the first earth satellite launched by a country that been portrayed as a third-world backwater with a bellicose foreign policy shocked the U.S. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation.

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