The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). In mid-October, oDesk held a programming contest for freelancers registered on the platform. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Joe Felter , Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities for the United States in its enduring strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, Russia and other rivals. Why This Class? – China competition from Dr.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The course is cross listed with Stanford’s Masters in International Policy program and the Management Science and Engineering department. With Russia? What are the risks of casting the US relationship with China and/or Russia as a whole-of-government competition? Class 1 Discussion Questions. relationship with China?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included How the DOD Acquires Weapons Systems , The Planning, Programming and Budgeting Process , Acquisition Reform in the NDAA , Defense Primer on DOD Contractors , and on the Defense Industrial Base. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Our national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage) is being challenged and effectively negated by autocratic regimes like China and Russia. At Stanford, the Gordian Knot Center will sit in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies run by Mike McFaul , ex ambassador to Russia. Marine C orps with just that.

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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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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

OCTOBER 7, 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

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. Meanwhile China has been engaged in a Civil/Military Fusion program since 2015 to harness these disruptive commercial technologies for its national security needs. In the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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The Next Web

MAY 8, 2013

As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council ’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Ilya will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, May 9th. Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor.

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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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The Next Web

MAY 9, 2013

An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. StartupLab is a free virtual mentorship program created by The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of hundreds of America’s most successful young entrepreneurs.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media. ended the Cold War with the then Soviet Union.

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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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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power. Few of these innovation activities have resulted in a major program of record. But for the rest of you, here they are: The 2018 National Defense Strategy focused the DoD on Great Power competition. Some hints of the future force came from multiple speakers.

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

And with our country focused for two decades on fighting non-nation states – Al-Qaida and Isis – Russia re-armed and China has built weapons that have negated our strengths, matched our military, and threaten democracy around the world. We envisioned a national Hacking for Defense program across 50 universities.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Established in 2000 in Russia, the MetaQuotes Software Corporation has arguably revolutionised mobile trading in developed companies across the globe. The corporation’s flagship product remains the MetaTrader 4 (MT4), which was initially launched in 2005 and remains the standard-bearer for excellence in the industry.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? He was previously the director of the IMD MBA (Master of Business Administration) and PED (Program for Executive Development). Turpin was named president of IMD in July 2010. He is also Nestlé Professor at IMD.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are a number of specific areas where these blurred lines led to subpar policies that undermined America’s technological competitiveness and left the country weaker against adversaries like Russia and China. Consider four recent examples: semiconductors, drones, the SolarWinds hack, and SpaceX’s Starship.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For example, the DCCC probably picks 20 campaigns/cycle for their frontline program – their program that helps high potential or at-risk seats. We talk to the DNC, DCCC, DLCC and the like and they are supportive – they’ve been clear they are not going to build a digital arm at this scale and refer campaigns to us.

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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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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

Trusted by employers from 150+ countries, Transformify Recruitment CRM helps businesses to hire diverse workforce, run CSR programs and transfer payments to contractors and employees in any currency worldwide. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. About Transformify.

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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. In Russia, the Hades group is a well-known hacking group.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

If the last couple of years were dedicated to data gathering, piping and optimization, then 2022 is making that data work for businesses who use it to implement machine learning programs for themselves. Thanks to Maya Mikhailov , SAVVI AI ! #23- 23- Increased higher-end jewelry purchases. Photo Credit: Yuvi Alpert. trillion by 2040.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs.

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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. So you have a program manager who’s watching this thing like a hawk from the beginning.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

“It’s proof that a program like Startup Chile can be impactful.” Moscow, Russia. .” Chile Is Heating Up. Santiago, Chile, is number 20 in the Ecosystem Index and is “a really an up-and-coming ecosystem,” Hermann says. ” (See Move Your Start-Up To Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000.). Paris, France.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.) This meant they would need U.S.

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