Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. If scooters were not being stolen, reprogrammed, vandalized, thrown into lakes, hung from trees, or pooped on, many city governments felt they were being hustled by these companies in a post-Uber world.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For many investors and entrepreneurs in the West, doing business in Russia can seem like a step into the unknown. With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia in numbers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Allied countries benefit under the Global Capabilities Program which offers allies opportunities to partner on research and development, with the goal to build prototypes and eventually co-produce systems. Last fall, Russia conducted a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament. Now a new cohort of the program is getting under way.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. A government that's trying to help, but gets in the way.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Mrinal Menon is one of my Hacking for Defense students at Stanford where he’s currently in the MBA program. Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Now, 4 years after I arrived at BerkeleyHaas, we don’t teach business plan writing in any of our entrepreneurship classes or in any of our dozens of programs and competitions. And the same lean techniques work just as well in the corporate innovation programs we run such as the Intel Make It Wearable Challenge. Berkeley-wide.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. The following day, I delivered a four hour workshop on capital sources and pitch strategies for fifteen entrepreneurs in the Propel program. We had a lovely time in Northern Ireland.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Beneath the veil, there is a bustle of activity in purchasing icons, codes, and programs to help them infect the systems they hack. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Countries like Russia, China, Canada, and the United States are involved in drilling races, trying to capture as much of the crude oil market as they can, all the while implementing new energy tech innovation to improve safety, productivity, and environmental impact. Exploring New Areas. Increasing Competition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

48:11) Show-related links: Dallas Mavericks Shark Tank schoolclosures.org The Diary of Anne Frank Mark's ESPN interview after the NBA's announcement it would suspend the season Monkey Mat Dude Wipes Paycheck Protection Program Project N95 PPE Coalition Rise Nation Dunning-Kreuger Effect "Want Your Business to Survive? Wars have been fought.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Rapid urbanization is a crisis.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

From [link] to the Silicon Taiga , these programs offer entrepreneurs funding, infrastructure and support in an effort to lure a critical mass of promising young companies and spawn the next Silicon Valley. Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. None has succeeded. “Our Of course, a good startup can get funding anywhere.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

But a half-century ago, the country started to disconnect from each other and our government when we eliminated national service. Others found it politically and/or financially profitable to create distrust in the government institutions that protect and bind us. Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. 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. By 1947 the U.S. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

How Should the DoD Realign its Concepts, Culture, Programs and Budgets? And so there’s a huge human capital effort to be done here to raise the overall tech literacy of all of the folks- from the program managers to the operators. But also, to bring more tech talent into government to really help speed the transformation process.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Trading lanes that were once calm and free, are being contested by geopolitical actors such as Iran, UK, China, USA and Russia. New rules and regulations spew out of government offices every single day. Shipping is being diverted. Subtle changes that might impede an entire load are very common.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

“It’s proof that a program like Startup Chile can be impactful.” Startup Chile is a government-sponsored effort to attract and support entrepreneurs from inside and outside Chile with cash and services. Moscow, Russia. ” (See Move Your Start-Up To Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000.). New York, New York.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. These were in the days where you couldn’t just be super smart, be disciplined, program computers well and get rich. That india isn’t just a headline about call centers, computing programming and offshoring. It was an “enterprise 2.0”

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Strategic plans so carefully developed now look like Napoleon’s disastrous return from his invasion of Russia (see graphic). Like all huge government programs there will be SNAFU’s. Like everyone else innovators have been thrown a loop during Covid19. Napoleon didn’t adjust his plans.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Strikingly, there are now several state and city government programs specifically designed to make it easier for non-Americans to found companies in NYC. This is the first citywide program in the US that allows a city (New York) to retain and attract foreign entrepreneurs by offering access to uncapped H1B visas.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

If there is one person who is able to provide creative solutions to complicated problems for governments, corporations and NFOs, it is definitely Holly Ransom. She is globally praised for being the founder of the top certified coaching program for women. Holly Ransom. Website: emergent.global. ’ 14. Aliza Sherman.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Great power conflict is back… between Western democracies and autocratic regimes like Russia, between the rising superpower of China and the reigning superpower of the US. Russia will likely remain an economic pariah state for some years and western European nations will seek to rejigger their energy systems.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. 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.

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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. At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power. Few of these innovation activities have resulted in a major program of record.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. is engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. All which leads to today’s topic, the other great power – Russia. Russia’s Pivot to Asia & the Chinese-Russian Relationship. Class 3 Required Readings. Fall of the USSR.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The instruments of national power brought to bear in this “whole of government approach” were long known by the acronym DIME (Diplomatic, Information, Military and Economic) and in recent years have expanded to include “FIL”- finance, intelligence and law enforcement-or DIME-FIL. With Russia? Class 1 – Required Readings.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s Russian AI Strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

But if the second, more realistic camp wins out – one that looks at malign activities of competitor states, like China and Russia, and focuses on defending American influence and liberal values internationally – I think there will be a striking amount of continuity. I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia.

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