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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

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. Today’s topic was Organizational Design and Modern War. Organization Design. And Finals Prep.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

In addition to its outstanding performance on what it was designed to do, what has surprised researchers about ChatGPT is its emergent behaviors. We’ve seen this effect in social media when it was people who were manipulating beliefs. I’ve lived through the revolutions in telecom, life sciences, social media, etc.,

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

Steve Blank

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications.

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Seven Steps to Small Business Recovery

Steve Blank

She started offering paint-from-home kits and hosting private parties via Zoom for team building, social hours, and birthday parties. I receive emails and texts, as well as social media posts daily, and it is inspiring,” Jill says. Florist Robin Smith of Rhapsody in Blooms started offering virtual floral design classes.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed.

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

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. However, there’s a growing belief that the “design preferences” of Chinese consumers are just bad design. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2

Steve Blank

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. Narrative Mind.