Steve Blank

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

However, this the first time ever that a software program has become human-competitive at multiple general tasks. On the business side that turns the product from an incredibly powerful application into an even more incredibly powerful platform that other software developers can plug into and build upon.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

They heard from a professor that the ratio of Stanford students taking software versus hardware courses was 10-to-1 software, a complete reversal from decades ago.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

The six pathways include urgent capability acquisition, middle tier of acquisition, major capability acquisition, software acquisition, defense business systems, and acquisition of services. The software acquisition pathway is the newest pathway in the adaptive acquisition framework. Added a path to acquire software.

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Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do?

Steve Blank

intelligence failure, miscalculation, and two superpowers unaware they were on the brink of an accidental nuclear war — all because the Soviet Union relied on a software program to make predictions that were based on false assumptions. How do we ensure we aren’t using a software program that misleads our own leaders?

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

News sources for Digital Health and Life Sciences are different from software/hardware blogs such as Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc. Unlike in the 20 th century where most VC’s financed hardware, software and life sciences, today therapeutics, diagnostics , and medical devices , are funded via VC firms that specialize in only those domains.

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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

As an example, this is a diagram of the multiple beneficiaries and stakeholders that a software company developing math software for middle school students has to navigate. And most importantly, start asking “who are the best lobbyists/advisors in this market?” The book Regulatory Hacking calls this diagram the Power Map.

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Moneyball and the Investment Readiness Level-video

Steve Blank

I observed that now that we’ve built software to instrument and monitor the progress of new ventures (using LaunchPad Central ), that we are entering the world of evidence-based entrepreneurship and the Investment Readiness Level. 11:31 Instrumenting Startups: Via Launchpad Central Software.

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