Steve Blank

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Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code

Steve Blank

I reminded my friend that I’ve never been an engineering manager so any advice I could give him was just from someone who had seen the movie before. While the code rewrite is going on, competitors who aren’t enamored with architectural purity will be adding features, platforms, customers and market share.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

If you look at the domain and where it’s headed, and where industry is headed, there are a lot of opportunities to come up with a hybrid type of architecture. I want folks managing their programs, not managing the Pentagon bureaucracy. General Raymond has managed to thread the needle to make this a service.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Personal supercomputer s meant yet again learning something completely new; new computer architectures, new applications and customers, new markets. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Help them?!!

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? Beyond TAM and SAM (“back of the napkin”) for Wicked Problems You need Big Ideas to tackle Wicked Problems: but who does it? How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. The architecture/capabilities needed to build out a more resilient communication network. It’s incredibly slow, because of all the stakeholders. I’m going to talk about some things that are easier to do.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

We basically had a retainer with one of the pioneering folks in computational chemistry, who ported and tuned his company’s application for our rather radical architecture, and also acted as a marketeer for us in that (then quite nascent) field.

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