"... About a month ago I had one of the strangest phones call of my life. “Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture

"... About a month ago I had one of the strangest phones call of my life. “Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” CIA? “Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” So I gave my “The Secret History of Silicon Valley” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. ..." It's been suggested one way to re-create Silicon Valley is to follow this recipe ~ http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html This post shows another ~ http://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%E2%80%99d-have-to-kill-you-the-story-behind-the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley/ http://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%E2%80%99d-h...