Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

For example, in Thailand you can do a VISA run in one day then return, whereas in Vietnam they are strict with their one month policy. Get two internet landlines and research to make sure the two providers do not run on the same physical network. Lean on locals. Always have multiple sources of internet connectivity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Finally, I had an answer to the question I had asked 35 years earlier when I was in Thailand: “How did electronic warfare get started?&# Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. Thanks for connecting the historical dots!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War. So this post is how I came to write “The Secret History of Silicon Valley&#. (I’ll So here it is in five parts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. Now is the time to think Lean.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

These components were the heart of the electronic warfare equipment I have worked on; including fighters in Thailand and on B-52 bombers. When I read the funny names of these microwaves devices… Backward wave oscillators, TWT’s, Magnetrons…long silent memories came back. After 20 years, the story started coming home for me.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

But when you go to eat there, you’re actually going and sitting in their house, and you’re seeing a slideshow of their travels in Thailand on the wall. To Tim Berry’s point, who was on this podcast a little while ago in a lean planning episode, a lot of this stuff comes from iterative thinking. Peter: Yeah.

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