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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. Eric Ries : That's a technique and a form of social engineering, almost, that is usually thought of as coming from the software world. I am Eric Ries. Let me ask you about your background.

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Another Day, Another Patent Troll

Feld Thoughts

I tried to educate some of my friends in government about this. In his 2003 letter to shareholders, Warren Buffet famously called derivatives, “” financial weapons of mass destruction ” that could harm not only their buyers and sellers, but the whole economic system. “ For a while I was frustrated by software patents.

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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

ReadWriteStart

In the 21st century those forces will make people in every kind of organization — start-ups, small businesses, corporations, and government — feel the pressure of rapid change.”. Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. The world has changed.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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A Bright Future for Bioscience in Temple, Texas

Austin Startup

THBD partners with Temple Independent School District (TISD) to encourage future generations of students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. Temple’s Health and Bioscience District is governed by a seven-member board.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years.