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

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And now that we have those structures built and we have the staffs designed, almost all those trades are done.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Today the U.C.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. A corporation, by contrast, is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable, scalable business model. This suggests a further modification to Lean Startup: Get Upstairs in the Building.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition. Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program.

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Are Facebook Investors Playing Russian Roulette?

crowdSPRING Blog

Amazon has spent aggressively on Kindle and other programs and stands to reap huge benefits in the future – it’s P/E ratio, while high, is not unreasonable. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

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

Steve Blank

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. The eventual goal of this program would have been to radar-map the Soviet Union. By 1947 the U.S. bombers. (The Details in the next post.