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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. America’s Space Forces.

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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. 3 specific issues: 1.

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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

This afternoon in Boulder I’ll be on a panel as part of the White House Startup America Roundtable. Over the past few years, I’ve spent some time thinking about how the government can help entrepreneurship. More recently, I’ve focused my energy on the Startup Visa movement and the Startup America Partnership.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you want to make America functional again ? We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices. Our goal: make America functional again by helping to empower people to promote policies they care about.

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