Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

The global healthcare industry is in flux like never before. Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 Secure timely funding. Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

For school lunches and food security, and so many surfaces. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Start-ups don't always interact with the government. The government knows that stimulus is important for the economy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We just completed the sixth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Q3: With regards to security, how will recent attacks against Google, Sony, and Epsilon impact the industry? This is interesting, because in a pre-digital world security issues are usually isolated geographically. For the first time in history, we see wide reaching implications of security breaches.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Q3: With regards to security, how will recent attacks against Google, Sony, and Epsilon impact the industry? This is interesting, because in a pre-digital world security issues are usually isolated geographically. For the first time in history, we see wide reaching implications of security breaches.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. Iconversations [guest].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

A quality education for our children in a safe and secure space shouldn't be impossible to achieve. We need to wait for the government to fix it." And then now you're faced with this global pandemic, which is immediately driving your costs up, immediately driving your impact up, immediately making new things possible.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us. Of course I do.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Once we make this leap, certification can play a more active role in helping the higher education system clearly convey to students what skills and competencies they should pursue if their primary objective is to optimize their economic futures. And then we need to take that record and make it part of a fully networked certification platform.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Non of this academic stuff. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely. the overseas business is a $billion security market. Pingback: You’ve Got Questions About Startups, Dan Martell has 189 Answers — Global Nerdy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. It has been downloaded by 2 million time, requiring less CPU processing than competing text input apps. Simply fill in this form provided by the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration, Matimop and the Israel Export Institute.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

individuals, foundations, and corporations donate around $47 billion a year to non-profit organizations that focus on child welfare, food security, homelessness, and other areas that fall under the domain of "human services." Every year in the U.S., But is the relationship between philanthropy and democracy really so zero-sum?

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