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

Steve Blank

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. There was a time when much of U.S.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. Audiences totaled over three hundred and eighty entrepreneurs, investors and members of the startup community.

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What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

This is going to be BIG.

What if it turns out she feels most herself in the LGBTQ+ community? I’m supposed to participate in a tech and startup community under these conditions? Or, if it isn’t about my daughter, knowing that it’s happening to other families in my community—the founders of the companies I back? I have a daughter. Their employees?

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Unveiling Possibilities: Learnings from TED 2023 in Vancouver

VC Cafe

In her view, many AI systems brings three big issues with it: AI models are expensive to train, Their power is concentrated to only a few tech companies and The environmental impact is massive Gary Marcus spoke about the risk AI poses on spreading disinformation and called for governments to regulate this technology before it’s too late.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Rapid urbanization is a crisis.