Steve Blank

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

Steve Blank

As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. These force rapid technical advances in fields such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, and analytics. The very definition of a contractor implies a contract.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

Reforms in each of these areas will strengthen the foreign military sales process. So this tool is fed in to our department’s ADVANA analytics platform. And increasing industrial capacity. And in addition to strengthening our interoperability with allies and partners. Not just that we’re dealing with a shell company.

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What’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human

Steve Blank

You look the same whether you are playing poker or making a sales call, in a suit or without pants. It’s a productivity killer for sales. There are already startups offering emotion detection and analytics software that measure speech patterns and facial cues to infer feelings and attention levels. Exchange business cards?

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2

Steve Blank

The team appreciates that the problem include the sensors as well as the analytics of the sensor data. Team Sentinel is trying to use low cost sensors to monitor surface ships in a A2/AD environment. Really good summary of hypotheses, experiments, results and action. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2

Steve Blank

The team appreciates that the problem include the sensors as well as the analytics of the sensor data. Team Sentinel is trying to use low cost sensors to monitor surface ships in a A2/AD environment. Really good summary of hypotheses, experiments, results and action. If you can’t see the presentation click here.