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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

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Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the CIA’s CTO and COO Nand Mulchandani and Andy Makridis. Others will join or found the companies building new disruptive technologies.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

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They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. Over the last two months the U.S. billion U.S.

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

Steve Blank

Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. First, one of the big things we’re doing is adopting digital engineering as our standard. And it’s more than just the digital engineering of the thing.

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

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Over the last two and a half years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 300 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for commercial success. So last fall we taught 26 life science and health care teams at UCSF in therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

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He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering.

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You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities

Steve Blank

For lots of reasons that never worked out, but I liked him so much that the following year I tried to hire him as the VP of Engineering of Ardent. (He I’m now getting more involved in my new job as CTO and I’m too busy to go back and forth negotiating this.” He was having too much fun at Sun and turned me down.). But I was crushed.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

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Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup.

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