Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. a government that’s trying to help, but gets in the way.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. Toxic Business Press and Contradictory Government Incentives.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2021

A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency. Having seen this scenario play out multiple times at multiple large corporations and government agencies, I could’ve repeated the speech her agency director made at the ceremony verbatim. Blah blah blah and a $100 bonus.” see this HBR article.)

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Non-Compete Government Incubator Design 436

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. Attempts to bridge this Valley of Death often find technology companies relying on Government capital. Last month the U.S.

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China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 323

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

The government ; the Innovation Division of the Ministry of Economy , the Chilean Economic Development Agency , (CORFO) which sponsored Start-Up Chile and Do Future in Patagonia as well as Fundacion Chile , the main R&D agency and the National Innovation Council. This isn’t some small-time effort. Corporate Connections. UAV’s?

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our current approaches – both in the past and current administration – to innovation across the government are piecemeal, incremental, increasingly less relevant and insufficient. – are no longer being led by military/government labs, but instead come from commercial vendors – many of them Chinese. Lessons Learned.

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Technology China Artificial Inteligence Acquisition 387

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency? In some companies and government agencies, innovators even have informal groups, i.e. an Innovators Alliance, where they can exchange best practices and workarounds to the system.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Feeders include the government, universities, investors, mentors, service providers and large companies. He points out that some of these, government, universities and investors think of themselves as the leaders and Feld’s thesis is that we’ve gotten it wrong for decades. Incubators and Accelerators. Role of Government.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. . “I want to see what you look like in a prison suit.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.) A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Most of the time our attempts at innovation result in “innovation theater” – lots of motion (memos from our CEO, posters in the cafeteria, corporate incubators) but no real change. —– What Have We Lost?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The SCO imagines new, often unexpected and game-changing uses of existing government and commercial systems.). Commercial technologies are being driven faster than any government can keep up with, though many governments are trying to steer it to their own advantage. Commercial technology has changed the DOD model.

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Technology China Agile Acquisition 388

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One observation that often goes unnoticed is that the government audit agencies – GAO, DoDIG – are also part of the problem, as they work hard in assuring compliance with bad strategy. invests large % of its GDP in research and development; however, the source of those dollars has shifted from government to private industry.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 321

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers. BTW, NCIIA is offering other accelerators and incubators a class to learn how to build their own versions of I-Corps here. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 271

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. He connects the Lab with the defense user community.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. The output of the NSF I-Corps class provides a proxy.).

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Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One observation that often goes unnoticed is that the government audit agencies – GAO, DoDIG – are also part of the problem, as they work hard in assuring compliance with bad strategy. invests large % of its GDP in research and development; however, the source of those dollars has shifted from government to private industry.

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Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. Key stakeholders in the broader healthcare ecosystem will be co-located under one roof: entrepreneurs, universities, established companies and strategic partners, providers, payers, hospitals, service providers, associations, advocacy groups, government and more.

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San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

They enabled companies to comply with local government laws – for example to allow foreign subsidiaries to transfer manufacturing technology from the U.S. Respond means, Invent, Invest, Incubate, Acquire or Partner. IBM’s research center in Zurich, GM’s research center in Israel, Toyota in the U.S are examples.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Incubator 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Here are our thoughts about how to confront the Red Queen trap and adapt a government agency to infuse continuous innovation in its culture and practices. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s remade entrepreneurship education, startup practice and innovation in companies and the government. Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. Lean Innovation in the Enterprise, Not-for-Profit and Government – what’s different.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Unlike an incubator or accelerator with no frame, the canvas acts as the connective tissue – the frame – that students can fall back on when they got lost or confused. In addition, two government-funded programs have adopted the class at scale. I can’t overemphasize the important role of the canvas.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm. One of the interesting innovation challenges I’ve encountered centers on a company’s culture.

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Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Following two days with a dozen startups at a brand-new incubator in Kiev called “ Happy Farm ,” it was time to head to my next stop: Skolkovo , the private Moscow business school formed to bring Silicon Valley-quality training to young Russian entrepreneurs.

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Ukraine Russia Silicon Valley Stealth 291

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

government is the leading payer for most of health care, and under ObamaCare the government’s role in reimbursing for medical technology will increase. Recently, the financing of innovation in medical devices has collapsed even further with most Class III devices simply unfundable.

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