Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. In these final weeks, they have to dig deep.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. In these final weeks, they have to dig deep.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Board Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2022

To compound matters even more, boards must also deal with the impact of global problems such as the war in Ukraine, inflation, and a looming recession. It was just two years ago that COVID-19 took root in colleges and universities, and higher education boards had to scramble fast to solve the problems the virus was creating.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

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Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Unlike nine year olds here he did not know about star wars and did not have a computer. Image credit: Exotic fish in water from Shutterstock. By Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. When does a fish notice water? When it is out of the water! The fish gasps for breath. What about me with my bald head?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. But here comes the narrative violation: despite the challenges, Israeli tech continues to power on.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Guy Kawasaki, author.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2023

Her latest book You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order, is a New York Times best seller that helps people navigate the shifting global financial order and create a plan to fight back and preserve their wealth creation opportunities. What inspired you? [05:38] How do we fix this? Like this show? Sound interesting?

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

At the nation state level, the end of the Cold War brought a largely unbroken period of peace and prosperity to most of the world and created an environment where greater international economic integration became both possible and desirable. Here’s how I see these supercycle dynamics shifting over the next few decades: .

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial Technology. government satellite in orbit.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, it marked the symbolic end of the Cold War. The United States emerged as the dominant power in the international system and its Cold War rivals appeared to be moving down a path of reform.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, it marked the symbolic end of the Cold War. The United States emerged as the dominant power in the international system and its Cold War rivals appeared to be moving down a path of reform.

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Russia North Korea Technology China 125

VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2022

Rising inflation and interest rate hikes, growth in debt to GDP ration, the war in the Ukraine (and global instability), increases in prices of energy, changing consumer habits to a post Covid-19, supply chain issues, etc, might be all contributing factors to the stock market (and tech in particular) declines. Down rounds are coming.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. . John Mearsheimer, “ Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin ” Foreign Affairs , 2014. This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. And after two decades focused on counter terrorism the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2015

It’s more about our celebrating what we love about our country than it is about winning a war. His family was from the Ukraine and Romania. Of potato famines, floods, war, slavery, deforestation and every unimaginable blight you can imagine. Like many who live here I’m proudly American. ” My family is Jewish.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 3, 2022

Think pandemics, political upheavals (the Trump presidency, Brexit, and so forth), geopolitical shifts (the continued rise of China, war in Ukraine), and environmental crises (fires, floods, droughts). Now that we have updated and are re-releasing the book a decade later, this is only more true. The Old Way of Thinking About Careers.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Like you, I am deeply distressed by wars, murder, restrictions on human rights, bias, and hate. But if your startup does not operate in Ukraine or Russia, then denouncing Russia does little (and Russia does not care!) Many tell me they feel pressured to say something, but are deeply conflicted. If not, I recommend keeping quiet.

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