Steve Blank

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Guidelines for use of this tech should be drawn up, perhaps paralleling the ones for genetic editing experiments – with Risk Assessments for the type of experiments and Biosafety Containment Levels that match the risk.

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The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Steve Blank

Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match. Others join startups to strike out on their own. But what I’ve noticed is that it’s rare that the smartest technical innovator is the most successful entrepreneur.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. Why Would an Entrepreneur Join a Venture Studio?

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Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Steve Blank

I’ve watched other world class consumer product companies make the same mistakes: Come up with amazing hardware that creates entirely new capabilities Forecast demand based on volumes of their previous consumer products Confuse consumers by defining a new category without a frame of reference Discover the hardware doesn’t match their existing consumer (..)

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And finally, Michele Flournoy former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy offered what a new Secretary of Defense might do to organize to match those 2+3 threats and new technologies. Midterms and Finals.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

As a buyer of technology and capability, the Department of Defense now can decide to buy different capabilities to match this new world. “Shockingly” many of those things are irrelevant when they show up, if they ever show up at all. Changing Acquisition.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

The reality for a regional investor is that you have to match the capital you raise to the deal/exit environment you are in. This experience has provided me a whole new set of pattern matching filters as an investor. Playing Moneyball also means playing with the money you have.