Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. And while the Soviets are fighting the Germans in massive land battles in eastern Europe, until the allies invade Western Europe in June 1944, the only way the U.S. Bear with me as this history takes you from the skies of Europe to Fred Terman.)

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Today, these alliances are being reshaped to respond to Russian threats to the Baltics and Eastern Europe and to China’s economic, military, and technological influence worldwide. During the Cold War U.S. diplomatic and military alliances existed to defend freedom around the world. Hacking for Allies. defense ecosystem.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

and British emigre physicists – many of them Jewish refugees who had fled Germany and occupied Europe. This group engineered a massive end run around the existing Army and Navy Research and Development labs. Presidential Science Advisor systematically applying science to develop advanced weapons. see diagram below.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe. We told Andy we’d talk further when he got back from Europe. The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. Every year the Secretary of Defense has to issue a formal report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Many Distributors in Europe and in Asia. Led by the CEO with a dedicated business development person and your science team. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies have therapeutics heads, technology scouts and business development people all searching for technology deals to fill their pipeline. Diagnostics (Starting at 5:16).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, you’re coming of age at just that extraordinary time in human development. Within 50 years, books created an information explosion across Europe – 10’s of thousands of titles, and 10’s of millions of copies of books. Let me be honest about my bias. I love technology.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Fast forward to today. He’s lived it and gets it.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

Just as Germany’s domination of Western Europe in World War II was eventually undone by its decision to launch a second front by invading Russia, so too unlike a start up, corporate ventures cannot focus solely on winning in the external marketplace. Get Upstairs in the Building, to generate this support.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations; and led the development of the Department of Defense’s 2012 Strategic Guidance. How Should the DoD Spend Smarter?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena : What we missed was capital … We spent three years on developing and actually even structuring deals to buy Internet access companies out of Stanford and out of MIT, and no venture capitalist would give us a penny. I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Europe had the market cornered.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena : What we missed was capital … We spent three years on developing and actually even structuring deals to buy Internet access companies out of Stanford and out of MIT, and no venture capitalist would give us a penny. I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Europe had the market cornered.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The pilot program allowed nine companies , including Apple, to begin developing products (like the Watch) using this regulatory shortcut. Apple has attempted to get medical researchers to create new health apps by developing ResearchKit , an open source framework for researchers. What’s Not Working? Great idea. The Future.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. Meanwhile the U.S. monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. As they developed MVPs, our students took these solutions out into the real world for feedback. Other universities are willing to have their students work on diplomacy and development problems. Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Slides 3-9) .

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. As they developed MVPs, our students took these solutions out into the real world for feedback. Other universities are willing to have their students work on diplomacy and development problems. Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Slides 3-9) .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. When the kids got older our adventures took us to Mexico, Ecuador , India, Africa and Europe. My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts.

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