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Steve Blank
Personal blog · steveblank.substack.comstartupsbusiness
Steve Blank's personal blog at steveblank.substack.com covers startups and business. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “"The Secret History of Silicon Valley"”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Steve Blank's Substack posts on startups and Silicon Valley. The one HN comment links a post to support the claim that government contracting helped create Silicon Valley, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Customer Development & Secret History.
Most-linked posts?
- "The Secret History of Silicon Valley"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-02
What Hacker News says?
Always have been. In large part, government contracting is what created Silicon Valley. https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-k...
Comment linking /p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-kill-you
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HN discussionSubmitted "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" as a story · 1 points
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