[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: Secret History of Silicon Valley | Steve Blank

[Brian Randell]

Hi

I’ve just received this on another mailing list. It looks interesting but I’ve not yet had time to read it carefully:

> http://steveblank.com/secret-history/
> 
> The Secret History of Silicon Valley – Backstory
> 	• Part 1: The Vietnam War
> 	• Part 2: B-52’s and the Soviet Air Defense System
> 	• Part 3: Bill Perry/ESL and the Cold War
> 	• Part 4: Undisclosed Locations
> 	• Part 5: Silicon Valley, the 2nd 100 years
> 	• Part 6: Stanford, Terman and WWII
> 	• Part 7: Stanford, Terman and the Cold War
> 	• Part 8: Stanford and the rise of Cold War Entrepreneurship
> 	• Part 9: Stanford and Electronic Intelligence
> 	• Part 10: Stanford and Weapons Systems
> 	• Part 11: The Rise of Venture Capital
> 	• Part 12: The First Valley IPO’s
> 	• Part 13: Startups with Nuclear Missiles
> 	• Part 14: Spy Satellites in Silicon Valley
> 	• Part 15: Lockheed – Silicon Valley largest employer
> 	• Part 16: Balloon Wars

Cheers

Brian Randell

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