Steve Blank

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Often companies will put you on their advisory board just to use your name and image (and not really want your advice). I didn’t want to have to sell back into the intelligence community, because I didn’t want to leverage my contacts so tactically, but plenty of people do it (and we need good people to do it.

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U.C. Santa Cruz Commencement Speech – 2019

Steve Blank

It’s altogether fitting and proper that in a college named after Rachel Carson , to share four short stories of what happened when truth and justice faced money and power – for the seven years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission. But why serve your community, state or country? — Carpe Diem.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? Yet, you never hear who built GM to that size. Who was the entrepreneur who founded what would become General Motors 16 years earlier, in 1904? What happened to him? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Inbound interest for partnerships, for employment, for investment (increased) — you name it from small companies, small HVAC contractors to large companies like AT&T. Will : … I want to focus on impacting my community and region as much as I possibly can. Orders increased. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

On the surface the book is an incredibly well written narrative over the course of five years, from 2008 to 2013, that connects the laid off auto workers, job center retraining, union organizers, community and business leaders, and politicians. but that the supporting service jobs would also disappear in the community.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Note to Chinese Communist party – the best name for your propaganda department should probably not be the “Propaganda Department.”). And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools. It’s an amazing cat and mouse system. Beijing’s Academic Hub.

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The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Steve Blank

What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure. So the first insight is that in the defense and intelligence community mission models are always multi-sided markets.