Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. If you want U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. Over the last two months the U.S. This week we saw the results.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2020

As I was reading The Atlantic article Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World I kept flashing to the end of Anna Wiener’s awesome memoir Uncanny Valley. This is a full reversal of the language that tech promoters used to sell Silicon Valley–style innovation and competitiveness for decades.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. If you want U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine. And that has happened to us. As we described how the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Stay tuned. Team AngelComms – Rescuing Downed Pilots. He runs H4X Labs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. In World War II the U.S. Hacking For Defense (H4D).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

But even more important than personal lessons of failure, I believe acceptance of failure at a societal level is one of the key ingredients that allows the technology startup industry in the US to flourish. Silicon Valley itself was built on the sciences with a foundation of trial-and-error and then improving the model and trying again.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

“We need to be like Silicon Valley,” we hear many a startup community organizer around the world intone. After all, Silicon Valley been held up as a shining example as a hotbed for startups and many clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as a similar scene for innovation and technological entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman , Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. The Center combines six unique strengths of Stanford and its location in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley’s deep technology ecosystem.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

We are leaders of 35 different technology companies with headquarters or offices in the Denver and Boulder metro areas. we are calling on government officials and other business leaders to restrict large group gatherings, including in the largest entertainment venues along the Front Range. Why are we taking these unprecedented steps?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine. And that has happened to us. As we described how the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. If you want U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Information and communications technology include 4,600 companies and 45,000 employees. tests new technology on a province-wide scale for industry and government.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2013

Everyone else – who I call the “feeders” (government, university, non-profits, big companies, VCs, angel investors) – have an important role, but the leaders must be entrepreneurs. I was interviewed recently in MIT Technology Review in an article titled It’s Up to You, Entrepreneurs. What’s the difference?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. China Venture Capital. innovation in the U.S.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2018

Traveling internationally for conferences always provides a more diverse perspective on where we are headed in business and technology. Canadian Government Sees Economic Potential. At the rate it’s growing, Toronto will have more technology jobs than Silicon Valley within the next two years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. If you want U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. But there are other regions in the world that might not be as fancy as Silicon Valley but have a remarkable potential for growth. This amount can triple by 2025.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. I don't control any government contracts.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

They’ve earned this position by their incredible work and track record over the last few years helping law enforcement agencies cope with the rise of this new technology. While there’s been a number of highly publicized examples including their role in helping creditors of Mt.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2023

Instead, the technology has been limited to niche operators and start-ups, such as Finland’s Varjo, which makes high-end headphones, and Estonia’s Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platform. Even though Finland offers free and high-quality education, it cannot compete with Silicon Valley regarding salaries.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Technology is not typically the first on the agenda. This is down to an intense focus on digitalisation that stems from the nation’s enormous banking industry, facilitating an ecosystem ripe for technological modernisation. Photo by Chait Goli from Pexels. Switzerland has a fantastic infrastructure that drives this new tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), despite recent failures, actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

We pointed out that Silicon Valley and Stanford have done this for 50 years. And China is outpacing us by adopting the very innovation methods we invented, integrating commercial technology with academic research, and delivering it to the Peoples Liberation Army. The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society were grappling with. He runs H4X Labs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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