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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

For now, we use the "stripped" name suffix. We have indicated any frameworks that received community review or for which the tests were wholly contributed by the community with a ✓ flag after their name in the results tables. Revised Environment Details. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large large instances for the EC2 tests.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. You can’t just name your own price.” If there was any society in which being a hustler was out of step with the norm is was England. Yet I was a foreigner so I got away with being different. “What? You want … what?”

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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I had come across a guy from the US named Michael Rhattigan who had transfered from the Chicago office to a place called Sophia Antipolis in the south of France (mid way between Nice & Cannes). He introduced me to a senior guy from the “network solutions&# practice, a Dutchman named Valentijn Bonger.

Europe 352
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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

It was Nazi Germany with the V1 and the V2 missiles, and the Messerschmitt 262, the first jet aircraft. But it wasn’t the tank as a technology, by itself, that allowed Nazi Germany to take over Western Europe in a matter of weeks. That was a great invention. In the case of jet propulsion, it wasn’t the U.S. that innovated.

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. There they would be tasked to develop military weapons systems and solve military problems to defeat Germany and Japan. The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S. corporations.).

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

now fighting Germany, and the Soviet Union looming as a potential adversary U.S. code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. By the end of WWII, with the U.S. million today.)

Minnesota 317
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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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In her well-regarded (but boringly named) book “ Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages ” Carlota Perez outlines the history of many of our great leaps forward in innovation. And LA is the largest retail & trade employment metropolitan zone in the country.