Steve Blank

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Is a $100 Million Enough?

Steve Blank

After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. Capitalism has been good to me. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups, while teaching 1,000’s of students how to start new ventures.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

In the middle of the Vietnam War, student riots protesting military research forced the end of classified work on most college campuses. As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

Although our experience in Vietnam would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. The Vietnam War would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Winning our wars remains-as MacArthur characterized- the military’s fixed and inviolable mission. Lessons Learned.

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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. It was amazing to see the movement I started grow and thrive. Just recently serendipity sent me down a new road that connected dots from 40 years ago to today.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel

Steve Blank

Although our experience in Vietnam would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. The Vietnam War would foreshadow the issues of unconventional warfare the U.S. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Winning our wars remains-as MacArthur characterized- the military’s fixed and inviolable mission. Lessons Learned.

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Airman Roachclip, Ashley P.

Steve Blank

Air Force Pacific Command in the middle of the Vietnam War. The fighters would sit in their protective revetments until morning slowly being reassembled for the next days shift over North Vietnam. Airman Roachclip was now part of the Vietnam war effort. The Night Shift. Roachclip’s personal file. Fast forward a few months.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Its Second Artillery Corps not only controls China’s ICBMs, but also its short range missiles pointed at Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, and U.S. bases in Guam and Okinawa. And its new terminally guided ICBMs have put U.S. aircraft carriers in harms way in any regional confrontation.

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