Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Update to the IP Commission Report: The Theft of American Intellectual Property: Reassessments of the Challenge and United States Policy ” The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property , 2017. Previously, he worked on arms control and the maintenance of strategic stability between the United States, Russia, and China.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2021

The students, with the help of a military member, developed broad proposals and wrote a policy paper for the President of the United States.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

One can make the case that all of these have/or are happening to the United States. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I are about to start our second year of teaching what was our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class. See all the class sessions here.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see the slides click here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

We’ve taken the kids to enough places in the world to realize the United States still remains a country of opportunity and hope. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. Imu turkey can’t be beat if you’re trying to exceed any rational amount of salt intake.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2021

Leaders decided that if Soviet power was at least 70 percent of that of the United States the balance of power was stable. By 1983, RYAN reported that Soviet power had declined to just 45 percent of that of the United States. might launch a preemptive first strike on the Soviet Union.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Today, the United States is facing several seemingly intractable national security problems simultaneously. They’re the first sponsors of the new Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford that Joe Felter , Raj Shah , and I have started. Gordian What? A Gordian Knot is a metaphor for an intractable problem.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Air Force – LTC Doug Snead/ MAJ Mike Rose, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center – Joe Murray/MAJ Dan Tadross, Special Operations Command Pacific – MAJ Paul Morton, United States Africa Command – Matt Moore, and from the Office of Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff – MAJ Jeff Budis. and the U.K.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We benefit because it helps the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO) standardize on equipment and our allies’ industrial capacity, capability and workforce can complement those of the United States.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The United States is reliant on a global supply chain for our goods, systems and services. And finding ways basically to undermine our free market system. In most instances, this is really very positive.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

National Science Foundation adopted this class, now called the Innovation Corps, as the basis of commercializing science in the Unites States. I saw something that they didn’t and to their credit…Berkeley’s Business School and then Stanford’s Engineering School let me write and teach a new course based on my ideas.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs in the United States take for granted our freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of thought. Yet time and again when I ask the local entrepreneurs themselves what questions they have, most often the first question is, “How do I get a visa to the United States?’.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. Here’s Todd’s story of how we got there and progress to date. ——-. Not That Long Ago.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Today, if you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

If former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s prediction about China overtaking the United States in AI comes to pass, the People’s Liberation Army could be better prepared than the U.S. military for future conflicts in which cyberattacks and drone swarms play a larger role than warships and fighter jets.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. Starting this Thursday, scientists and engineers across the United States will once again set the rules. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. You can read about the class here.).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

The best analogy to describe the relationship of science and technology and the Chinese startup scene is to understand its parallels with the United States during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? During World War II, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. Outside the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see the slides click here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The cultural tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a financial structure which balanced risk, return and obscene returns, allowed this system flourish in technology clusters in United States, particularly in Silicon Valley. This is a potential game changer for science and innovation in the United States.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

candidate in the Department of Economics and Department of Management Science & Engineering who is on the team tackling how to better evaluate peacekeeping forces funded by the United States, said he signed up for Hacking for Diplomacy to “push the envelope” on his learning. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

candidate in the Department of Economics and Department of Management Science & Engineering who is on the team tackling how to better evaluate peacekeeping forces funded by the United States, said he signed up for Hacking for Diplomacy to “push the envelope” on his learning. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The rise of the United States as a national power was incredibly steep, however its trend over the last two decades is not heading in the right direction and is about to intersect with the rise of China. (Slide 17) The takeaways were that: National power is ephemeral.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

The best analogy to describe the relationship of science and technology and the Chinese startup scene is to understand its parallels with the United States during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? During World War II, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Kauffman Foundation is the leading private funder of economic research related to growth and innovation in the United States. Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Javier : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … . I headed up the programs that focused on high-growth businesses in the United States. There’s 28 million small businesses in the United States.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It really exploded our perception and visibility in the United States. We rolled the dice … Certainly, for us, it was worth it because we were on prime-time television for 10 minutes talking about our product. … Orders increased.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

My dad was working over there, and we spent six years moving across Europe and then back across the United States. Here’s how he learned to embrace new experiences: When I was young my family moved to Europe. I was, at one point, in 10 schools in 10 years. …. The travel) affected us a lot. …

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. In 1957 after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite the U.S. felt that it was the victim of a strategic technological surprise.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

If you asked 100 people to describe a United States Marine , they would probably use words such as “Warrior,” “Fierce,” “Patriot,” “Honorable,” and “Tough.” Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

If you asked 100 people to describe a United States Marine , they would probably use words such as “Warrior,” “Fierce,” “Patriot,” “Honorable,” and “Tough.” Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

They learned that as many as six million people in the United States are stricken with Parkinson’s disease, and other conditions that cause tremors. In the creativity stage, the team was struck by how many people struggle with debilitating hand tremors that keep them from holding a coffee cup or buttoning a shirt.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) The Churchill Club , Silicon Valley’s largest public affairs organization, invited Carl Schramm , president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation and I to talk about entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. While we’re excited by the results, we’ve realized that we’ve been solving the problem for the 1% of new ventures that are technology startups. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. Silicon Valley startups are falling over each other to file their S-1 documents to go public. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 billion at the end of the first day (on $58.9

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The rise of the United States as a national power was incredibly steep, however its trend over the last two decades is not heading in the right direction and is about to intersect with the rise of China. (Slide 17) The takeaways were that: National power is ephemeral.

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