Acquisition and Media

Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Facebook’s ~$20 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a 5-year-old startup that had $10 million in revenue, made no sense until you realized that Facebook was paying to acquire 300 million new users.). Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors. 2. Information is everywhere.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

We wanted to show that if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs could operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. He runs H4X Labs.

Lean

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s how that happened. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

Lean

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

I’m not going to talk about reforming the acquisition process, which many of your class speakers have mentioned and does need to get done. States can utilize subversive and disruptive messaging on social media and other platforms to sow discord and confusion within an adversary’s borders. Three Solutions.

Taiwan

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan Technical Review Iraq Social Media

Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle.

Artificial Inteligence

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. He runs H4X Labs.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How To Fix It

Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

For example, Uber took existing technology (smartphone app, drivers) but built a unique business model ( gig economy disrupting taxis) and the Russians used existing social media tools to wage political warfare. These rapid Horizon 3 deliverables emphasize disruption, asymmetry and most importantly speed , over any other characteristic.

China

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National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

social media, ecommerce, gaming) instead of in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, etc. While the Dept of Defense has encouraged starting new ventures, it has failed to match it with the acquisition dollars to scale them. industrial policy.

China

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). What’s holding large companies back?

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup

How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

Silicon Valley

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. This week, in slide 3, the team further refined where ARCYBER sat in the org chart of who owned the problem within the DOD/IC and the acquisition process.

San Diego

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. This week, in slide 3, the team further refined where ARCYBER sat in the org chart of who owned the problem within the DOD/IC and the acquisition process.

San Diego

San Diego Lean Iraq Acquisition

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

Oakland

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

Southern California

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 1

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

Most discussion about innovation of defense systems acquisition starts with writing a requirements document. Team Narrative Mind is trying to determine how to use data mining, machine learning, and data science to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media (think ISIS).

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Social Media Artificial Inteligence

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

Silicon Valley

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered.

Silicon Valley

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. Live Streaming the Class.

Social Media

Social Media Naming Networking Aggregator

Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. Live Streaming the Class.

Social Media

Social Media Naming Networking Aggregator

Fly High

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut

If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration. Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? .&# Its the basic parameters and constraints involved in the equation are the same.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How To Fix It

National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

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