down the avenue: Steve Blank: History of Silicon Valley Tech vs Silicon Valley NOW

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Only Those Who See the Invisible, Can Do The Impossible
The Age of your Heart is the Age of what you Love - Marcel Prévost
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one opening before us. -Helen Keller
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The foolish reject what they see, the wise reject what they think
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The world surrenders to a quiet mind
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August 06, 2010

Steve Blank: History of Silicon Valley Tech vs Silicon Valley NOW

I haven't heard a 'university' lecture in awhile.....as for the style of one? Sure, I go to LongNow events and some academia shows up at TED, PopTech and others conferences I support and love. Yet, the below take is academic and historical in nature and refreshing in my world of largely start-ups and money.

Steve Blank, Consulting Professor of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at the Stanford School of Engineering brings an interesting perspective to technology then and now.