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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. They may be privately run but often are non-profit, attached to a university or in some locations a local government.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52)

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems.

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

I got to see the peak of America’s manufacturing prowess in the 1970s, when we actually made things – before we shipped the factories and jobs overseas. First , America was built on workers who believed that their hard work would allow their children to have opportunities to do better.

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How Code for America Makes Good Government Great

Reid Hoffman

" In comparison, federal, state, and local government spend around $411 billion a year providing similar safety-net services. " And yet as statistics like the ones above suggest, even today’s most ambitious philanthropists are hard-pressed to match the resources the government has at its disposal. ."

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But also, to bring more tech talent into government to really help speed the transformation process.