The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. It could be an urban area where several startups settle (think Silicon Alley in London) or a grass roots organization like the famous ‘ home-brew computer club ‘ or even a hipster coffee place like Berlin’s Oberholz cafe.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. Whitney Co.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

A quality education for our children in a safe and secure space shouldn't be impossible to achieve. And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. We were based in Boston.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. And it seems the US Government is determined to facilitate this by pouring billions to stimulate the sector. First, that's where the customers were.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But IMO it’ll take a “big bang” multi-party effort rather than an incremental innovation, so it’ll favor large organizations (big companies and/or governments) rather than startups. Government fiat. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial Technology. For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. They’re not the only startup in this fight. China – Civil/Military Fusion.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We just held our eighteenth and final session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. What do you think is the opportunity for Silicon Valley and the students in our class here at Stanford, to play a role in national security? Today General James Mattis addressed the class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. When people say, "Well, who could've foreseen this," well, part of, I think, is we couldn’t have foreseen exactly how bad it's been because it was hard to foresee that our government would bungle this as badly as it did. experts inside the Chinese disease-response agency.

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