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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. And they were the ones who had given the program office the requirements from the outset. ——-.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. and the U.K.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. One of their major initiatives is to launch marketing programs that engage customers in a fresh, new way. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

The best analogy to describe the relationship of science and technology and the Chinese startup scene is to understand its parallels with the United States during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The 973 program (National Basic Research Program) part of the Ministry of Science and Technology. billion budget.

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Entrepreneurs as Dissidents

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurs in the United States take for granted our freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of thought. In several of these countries, the government is pouring enormous sums into building entrepreneurship programs, faculties and even cities. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.