Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta.

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Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2016

I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. You can’t rely on anybody else. . I didn’t fit. I’m entrepreneurial and creative.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Fort Worth America Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This one class launched the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, (designed to help turn our country’s best academic research into companies), the I-Corps @ the National Institute of Health, I-Corps @ the Department of Energy, I-Corps @ NSA, Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Diplomacy , Hacking for Cities and Hacking for Non-profits.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. National Service.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Hacking for Defense is now supported by the National Security Innovation Network and has put hundreds of students in 24 universities through the program. We’re going to cover: The effectiveness of our programs [including I-Corps and Hacking for Defense]: What we have learned so far from the data and how to make it better. Australia?].

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Lean South America Asia Australia 41

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. At this size the program will provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. of Management Science and Engineering.

Agile 120

Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. National Service.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

A year ago as I started helping government agencies put innovation programs in place, a student in my Stanford class who had served in the special forces pointed out that the Lean methodologies I was teaching sounded identical to what the U.S. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

A year ago as I started helping government agencies put innovation programs in place, a student in my Stanford class who had served in the special forces pointed out that the Lean methodologies I was teaching sounded identical to what the U.S. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. In America, I think it’s money; if you can make money from your illness, then you are deemed a genius. .

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Channel Programming Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week the White House announced Startup America , a public/private initiative to accelerate accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S. Startup America is a mashup of very smart programs by very smart people but not a strategy. I got a call from a recruiter looking for a CEO for the Startup America Partnership.

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America Silicon Valley Washington Venture Capital 318

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps. By creating a national network of colleges and universities, the Hacking for Defense program can scale to provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

So much so that the NSF decided to scale the Innovation Corps program. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. In 2012 the NSF will put 150 teams of the best scientists in the U.S.

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America Rhode Island Southern California Illinois 241

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

The Navy calls its program Outreach: Americas Navy. It’s hard to spend time on a carrier and not be impressed with the Navy, and the dedicated people who man the carrier and serve their country. And of course that’s the purpose of the two-day tour.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley PR Offshore Engineer 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. There’s almost $2 billion spent in North America on paying to play basketball.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur North America Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows that pushed them forward. And it’s a culture issue. . It has been sports and entertainment, not tech.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Carolina Cofounder Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country, they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Over 1,000 teams of our nation’s best scientists have been through the program. And the result hasn’t been good for our country.

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Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 206

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. … It was the single best piece of career advice I’ve ever received.” ” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington New York City 120

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. They’d run around saying, “Hey look, I can program this chip to make this speaker go beep.”

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Minnesota Silicon Valley America Engineer 335

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

How Should the DoD Realign its Concepts, Culture, Programs and Budgets? And so there’s a huge human capital effort to be done here to raise the overall tech literacy of all of the folks- from the program managers to the operators. So you have a program manager who’s watching this thing like a hawk from the beginning.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. They’d run around saying, “Hey look, I can program this chip to make this speaker go beep.”

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Minnesota Silicon Valley America Engineer 227

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The University, with 2600 undergrads and 500 graduate students, started out in 1884 as the center of formal education for America’s textile workers and managers. At Babson College he was chair of the entrepreneurship department and built the school into one of the most innovative entrepreneurial programs in the U.S.).

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Philadelphia Agile United States Engineer 320

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Coming to America. “I Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. government commercializes science. So what did I do?

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Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Like all government programs, the SBIC was fond of paperwork, but it began to formalize, professionalize and standardize the way investors evaluated risk.

Silicon Valley 125

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 125

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. It’s the best of America and it opens doors sometimes when our policies may actually shut them or keep them closed. .

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North Korea SEC Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 132

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

It called out China as a peer competitor to America, pursuing its goal of global dominance. Few of these innovation activities have resulted in a major program of record. But for the rest of you, here they are: The 2018 National Defense Strategy focused the DoD on Great Power competition.

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Technology China Artificial Inteligence Acquisition 387

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, America has advantages that China lacks: capital markets that can be incented not coerced, untapped innovation talent willing to help, labor markets that can be upskilled, university and corporate research that still excels, etc. These programs ( DIU , In-Q-Tel , AFWERX , et al), are limited in scope, time and success at scale.

China 323

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 323

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The course is cross listed with Stanford’s Masters in International Policy program and the Management Science and Engineering department. National Security Strategy of the United States of America, Introduction p. National Security Strategy. Steven Heffington et al., A National Security Strategy Primer , U.S. 1-4: [link].

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Technology Russia China United States 421

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It made the program I helped start, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) a permanent part of the nation’s science ecosystem. It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. leads the world in support of basic and applied science.

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Lean Technical Review Government Programming 238

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Move Past America First. I’d recommend the new administration take out of the national security strategy at the White House anything about “America First”. Real strategic thinking based on traditional strategies and traditional views of America’s role in the world, with less militarism in its foreign policy.

Technology 278

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley 278

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It made the program I helped start, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) a permanent part of the nation’s science ecosystem. It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. leads the world in support of basic and applied science.

Lean 120

Lean Technical Review Government Programming 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia. Are they prioritizing the right programs, or does more fundamental change need to happen? Specific legacy programs vs new technology areas. DoD Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System. Should the New Administration Focus on Europe or IndoPacom?

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Technology China Taiwan 235

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. . America is full of entrepreneurs, inventor and dreamers. We need to continue that. He saw the movie, “Field of Dreams.”

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Washington Government 120