Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. We flew these unarmed planes in and out of Germany alongside our bombers and basically built up the “radar order of battle.&# That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Especially because U are 3 out of 4 leaders (Paul Graham is still missing) in developing entrepreneurship in the US, as far as I can judge that here from Germany. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The goal is to ultimately be able to plug in AARRR-like criteria for each type of business model. So please, go on!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Smarter Intelligence One of the major differences between the war with Germany and the cold war confrontation with the Soviet Union had to do with access. Unlike Germany in World War II, the U.S. Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. political leadership with a much bigger picture.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

So what exactly was the Electronics Research Lab designing? These 1940′s jammers (built by the wartime lab headed up by Terman and his team now at Stanford) had been built around tubes originally designed for radio applications, put out 5 watts of power. Air Force and its Strategic Air Command. What were these microwave tubes?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. As an executive it was easy to think I had to get on a plane for every deal. But I probably traveled 20% of what I did when I was single.

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