Steve Blank

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

Steve Blank

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications. 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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2

Steve Blank

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. Narrative Mind.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2

Steve Blank

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. Narrative Mind.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

Now they’ve realized that the SAR data and analytics is the business. NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. Then the question was, “For whom?” If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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