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Steve Blank Fly high

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 4/29/13 | Leave a comment

Todd Branchflower was one my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal … More >

Steve Blank The endless frontier: U.S. science and national industrial policy (part 1)

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 1/14/13 | One comment

The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on … More >

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