Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2020
The JAIC is a tiny team, yet we have a product directorate with 32 products that we’re building across six verticals – all the way from warfighter health to Joint warfighting to Business Process automation, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance. Selling JAIC Like Enterprise Sales.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
One of the most promising trends accelerating in digital health is the verticalization of digital health. Consequently, it is now feasible to build a large business by becoming a focused vertical provider that delivers superior care and patient experience in your specialty. . Why is 2021 Different.
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Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2021
Instead, their solutions must still compete for funding in a formal budgeting and acquisition process before being eligible for widespread adoption. For example, “flying taxi” startup Joby Aviation aligned its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with the Air Force’s stated interest in advancing the market for air mobility vehicles.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.
Haystack
DECEMBER 29, 2018
Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable).
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 5, 2010
The government has already given them millions in grants so it’s a good start. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. I for one will be routing for them, though.
mashable.com
JULY 18, 2012
The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.
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