Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Yan , on December 20, 2009 at 5:57 pm Said: This post reconfirms my strong beliefs- efforts to secure you as an advisor once we get traction. Looking forward someday to sit with you and chat on things can be done as an entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Best regards, Manish Reply Kyle Q.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Create a national network of colleges and universities that use the Hacking for Defense Course to provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The two groups would merge in 1949 as the Armed Forces Security Agency and then become the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1952. Unfortunately for the company they couldn’t tell anyone as their customer was the most secret government agency in the country – the National Security Agency.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Create a national network of colleges and universities that use the Hacking for Defense Course to provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

A security guard was stationed at the door of the Applied Electronics Lab to ensure that only those with proper security clearance could enter.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. Quantum communications could allow secure networking but are not a viable near-term business. And this is where Quantum computers become very interesting and relevant for both commercial and national security. More below.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Volunteering for the unknown … which meant leaving the security of what I knew…would continually change my life. As it turned out, rather than run me out of town on a rail, the two venture capital firms that had lost $12 million in my failed startup actually asked me to work with them. No one ever sets out to fail.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

The National Security Agency has a great website on the subject. ———— The VENONA Project One of the most interesting (declassified) stories of cryptography is the deciphering of Soviet communications to their diplomatic missions in the U.S during World War II.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We just completed the sixth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Required Readings.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

Horizon 2 uses mostly existing capabilities (the carrier as an aircraft platform, aircraft to deliver munitions) and has moderate risk in building or securing new capabilities to get the product out the door. Failure to support their potential disruptive talent means it will go elsewhere. And not just one.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories used supercomputers to run their hydrodynamics codes for nuclear weapon design and the National Security Agency used them to decrypt codes. The reality was that the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

They worried but began to feel more secure. If/when they overshot, they could rehire 100 people (including some of the same people who had been laid off). While the mass layoffs created an immediate shock, people adjusted. When hiring began again, everyone was relieved: “The worst is over. Things are getting better.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In fact, he believes (and its been historically proven that) this can be a method of securing funding 1) Concept 2) Business Plan 3) Test Hypothesis 4) Customer Proof 5) Lessons Learned 6) Series A. [.] is quite good. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

After hearing from 20+ guest speakers , including two Secretaries of Defense, Generals, Admirals and Policy makers in our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class – the direction of technology and the future of national security came into sharper focus. — “We need to couple the $150 billion a year U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Every day hackers demonstrate how weak the security of our corporate and government resources are. Because security is expensive, hard, and at times not user friendly, the financial services companies have fought any attempt to mandate hardened systems.) Stealing millions of credit cards occurs on a regular basis.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.) They also seek to identify legal issues, security issues, and support issues.

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JULY 20, 2009

I tried to clear my head and remember what else I had said, like anything that would be really, really, really bad to say outside of a secure facility. As I realized what I had said, a much longer panic set in. As I left this meeting I realized I didn’t even remember when I had left ESL or how I had gotten to Zilog.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Although all the manuals were in safes, the whole site was so secure that anybody who had access to that site had access to everything – including other compartmentalized systems that had nothing to do with me – and that I wasn’t cleared for. Thank you to the security people who could tell the difference between an idiot and a spy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yet one of the most remarkable things about the boom in microwave and silicon startups occurring in the 1950’s and 60’s was that it was done without venture capital. ARD was a publicly traded venture capital firm (raising $3.5 There was none. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors. Whitney Co.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

We just held our twelfth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Today’s topic was The Navy and Modern War. Our guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

I have seen other friends come from very stable environments who fall apart in chaos and feed off of security. Reply Kamal Ravikant , on May 26, 2009 at 11:07 pm Said: Interestingly, this is exactly what Hemingway said when asked for the one trait a great writer needed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Pre-Seed Round Paperwork: Smart investors will typically give you minimal paperwork – either a convertible note or a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) or a KISS (Keep It Simple Securities). Seed Round of Funding.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial Technology. Another startup is providing a resilient, mesh local area network for secure tactical communications supporting ground units. Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. In the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our recent national security class at Stanford, Technology, Innovation, and Modern War was designed to give students insights on how the onslaught of new technologies like AI, machine learning, autonomy, cyber, access to space, biotech, hypersonics, and others have the potential to radically change how countries fight and deter threats.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

McMicking and Terman introduced Ampex to the National Security Agency, and Ampex sales boomed when their audio and video recorders became the standard for Electronic Intelligence and telemetry signal collection recorders. A wave of silicon innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital. More on this in the next post.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

20+ guest speakers on technology and its impact on national power – prior secretaries of defense and state, current and prior National Security council members, four-star generals who lead service branches. Team Army Venture Capital. Final problem statement : Chinese adversarial venture capital investments in U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For programs written for classic computers, software developers receive bug reports, monitor for security breaches, and send out regular software updates that fix bugs, increase performance and at times add new features. It has uses in threat detection – airport security, banks, and sporting events. AI in National Security.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These are investment vehicles in which central and local government agencies make investments that are combined with private venture capital and State-Owned Enterprises in areas of strategic importance. The result was that by default, private equity and venture capital were the de facto decision makers of U.S. In the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories which used supercompurters to run their hydrodynamics codes to simulate what went on in the first microseconds in a nuclear weapon and the National Security Agency (with Cray putting in a special population count hardware instruction) used to facilitate decryption of codes.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We just held our fifteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. But there is a ton of good work going on beneath the surface, beyond what you see on TV, particularly in national security. What do you expect from the new administration on National Security? If you talk to H.R.

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