Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We started developing capabilities as part of that great power competition with the Soviet Union. China’s Anti-Satellite Demonstration. The next demarcation was 2007, when China launched a missile that blew up one of their own satellites into about 3000 pieces of debris. We’re also focusing on partnerships.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite the clear and present danger of threats from China and elsewhere, there’s no agreement on what types of adversaries we’ll face; how we’ll fight, organize, and train; and what weapons or systems we’ll need for future fights. China fielding naval, space and air assets in unprecedented numbers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Here’s what Will had to say: Competition with China. I view the competition with China as one of the seminal challenges that we’re going to face in this century. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile. You need to be exceptionally fast and agile. It’s not a fait accompli how it’s going to end.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. The convergence of digital trends along with the rise of China and globalization has upended the rules for almost every business in every corner of the globe.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Success no longer goes to the country that develops a new fighting technology first, but rather to the one that better integrates it and adapts its way of fighting… Our response will be to prioritize speed of delivery, continuous adaptation, and frequent modular upgrades. And you’d be right. And his company has 2 million employees.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Trying to kill one of these to free up money for new weapons development is a major political problem. Slides 10-13). It fails when facing unknowns.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included CNAS “The Next Defense Strategy” series , Sustaining the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy , Enhancing Forward Defense: The Role of Allies and Partners in the Indo-Pacific , Make China the Explicit Priority in the Next NDS , the Indo-Pacific Strategy Report , Lessons for a Future War.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

We may be waiting for 5G in the UK, but China has been studying G6 since 2018 and started properly testing it with the support of its big national telecommunications companies in 2020, according to editors at inc.com. COVID-19 saw several changes, particularly in the area of telephonic development. 7- 6G will rule.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Scrum comes to us from the worlds of product and software development, where creative iteration and collaboration are of the utmost importance.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Trying to kill one of these to free up money for new weapons development is a major political problem. Slides 10-13). It fails when facing unknowns.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., 20 th century Management Tools for Execution In the 20 th century business schools and consulting firms developed an amazing management stack to assist companies to execute. The question is – why?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. North Korea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy. Sign up here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If we find ourselves on the verge of a conflict with China in 20 years, the idea that we might have a fully AI-enabled force by then will not by itself guarantee victory. If on the other hand, in that same 20-year period, China has a fully AI-enabled force and we do not, I believe we will incur an unacceptably high risk of defeat.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. Additionally, “a startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model. Product development also occurs in small iterations or changes. Invest in your brand.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

And sure, there’s a little bit of bull in a china shop in me—but if I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t work nearly as hard, and frankly, I wouldn’t be me. often gets vilified in the pursuit of a good developer, but think about things from the perspective of your average hardcore developer ninja. sucks up all the good programmers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, you’re coming of age at just that extraordinary time in human development. When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In response we developed the Hacking for Defense class where students could learn about the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community to solve real national security problems. Fast forward to today.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. In Asia, China provides a case in point. A new multinational, albeit a small one that nobody had ever heard of, was born.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And that’s just to get started. I like my odds.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations; and led the development of the Department of Defense’s 2012 Strategic Guidance. — On China. Not interested in that.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? But I don’t think so.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Example: wechat in China. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Culture of Innovation. Two pizza approach – organized for execution. Continuous Optimization.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

BGT creates interactive marketing and technology solutions for global corporations that strengthen brands, develop more engaging relationships and transform businesses. One of the biggest disadvantages of the waterfall is that little thought is given to design and development for environments beyond the standard desktop browser.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

While Twitter has acquired various client apps like TweetDeck, they let various 3rd party developers pursue the premium service revenue opportunity. As a source of real-time content and information, Twitter really has no peer in most global markets (China being the most notable exception where local clones dominate).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue. That’s actually a combination of Payments (the 30% share Facebook takes from app developer revenues) and advertising spend for ads Zynga buys on FB to acquire customers.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In the twenty-first century our country’s military and economic power will rely on the rapid development and deployment of new technologies— 5G , microelectronics, cyber, AI, autonomy, robotics, access to space, drones, biotech, quantum computing, energy storage, and others yet to be invented. What it means for the U.S.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.) Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

In the US all the above reasons are relatively minor whereas in China it is clearly the lack of resources that keeps people in the employee status. It’s about being mentally at ease with a trial-and-error format of business development. The point is not to memorize facts or fill in wildly unpredictable plans. Changing the mindset.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

However, the equipment listed above is available commercially off-the-shelf, at dramatically cheaper prices than what’s offered by the large existing defense contractors, and developed and delivered in a fraction of the time. China – Civil/Military Fusion. And we’re not. ” Acquire at Speed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. People (programmers) write software code (programming) to develop applications, thinking a priori about all the rules, logic and knowledge that need to be built in to an application so that it can deliver a specific result.

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