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

Steve Blank

During World War II the United States did something its adversaries did not; it enlisted professors and graduate students as civilians in 105 colleges and universities to build advanced weapon systems — nuclear weapons, radar, etc. And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

of purchases were made via mobile devices in the United States, as Statista reported. In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong

Steve Blank

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. But by the early 1960?s

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Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance

Steve Blank

One of the reasons the United States prevailed in the Cold War with the Soviet Union was that total government control of innovation is an inherent weakness. venture capital was funding startups led by iconoclasts, troublemakers and dissidents. How can we effectively compete? Meanwhile in the U.S.,

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This is a potential game changer for science and innovation in the United States.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) In 21 st century terminology we’d say that Terman built the Radio Research lab into a customer-centric organization doing agile development.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity.

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