Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 312

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

See the March 2011 edition after the jump. Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. economic recovery, but in spite of, rather than assisted by, support from the federal government. Increase operating efficiencies. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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Small Business Administration SBA Japan Forecast 224

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

On November 18, leading thinkers from government, academia, industry, citizen organizations in Singapore – will converge together for GovCampSG. One of the sponsors and organizers is Microsoft , who’d like to see the building of a community of like-minded individuals who care about Government 2.0 and Society 2.0″

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Singapore Government Social Media Analytics 208

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. So that was my thesis when I left the Pentagon in 2011. civilians and business is not protected by the government.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. This coupled with government intervention of companies “too big to fail” were the blight that led to Japan’s “ lost decade.” We’d have to hit 2.5%

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I presented to thousands of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had nine interviews, chatted with eight VC's, sat on four panels, talked policy with two government ministers, two members of parliament, one head of a public pension fund and was in one TV documentary. A government that's trying to help, but gets in the way.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I tried to educate some of my friends in government about this. As I sit here at the end of 2011, the software patent situation has spun completely out of control. We seem to not be able to rely on the government to take action that will affect change. For a while I was frustrated by software patents. I had zero impact.

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Software Engineering Software Government America 143

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Mostly we got to see the team operate in stressful times and that changed my perspective on the deal. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. Depressing. It felt awful. We did not. Fundings boomed.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Never seeking recognition for his genius, quietly thwarting horrible crimes or saving entire governments, almost none of London’s other inhabitants knew the man at 221B Baker Street was one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen. Sure, Holmes was the best crime-solver ever, but it was the way he solved them that made him great.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. With nearly all assets of value existing in the digital domain, backups can be made and data stored anywhere on Earth.

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Technical Review Egypt Morocco Russia 172

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. This group helped provide cross-functional input into the Community Standards maintained by our superb Policy and Operations teams. Remember Neda ?

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Technical Review IP Algorithm Video 51

Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. This group helped provide cross-functional input into the Community Standards maintained by our superb Policy and Operations teams. Remember Neda ?

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Technical Review IP Algorithm Video 48

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

He serves as Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica, a Nairobi based organization that provides investment and consulting services in addition to operating the GrowthHub, an incubator and accelerator. Nikolai Barnwell currently serves as Program Manager of accelerator 88MPH’s operations in Nairobi.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 277

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

The early miners in the area were government convicts and miners from Britain and Wales. In 1885, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) began mining operations of silver, zinc and lead in Broken Hill, NSW. He topped the 2011 list of the richest people in the Hunter Valley Region with earnings of $1.1

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:34 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. It took me a while to realize that Joe had one heck of a first act before coming to Stanford in 2011. As I later discovered, Joe’s first act was 24 years in the Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), retiring as a Colonel.

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Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I started announcing my Twitter thesis back in 2011 (still serves as a useful read today). Put simply, the amount of public, real-time information that is now being created by hundreds of millions of users and soon billions of objects will change the way every major business, organization or government must operate.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012. The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. WARREN BUFFET’S BERKSHIRE HATHWAY UNIT TTI BUYS ISRAEL’S NET AYE.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That version failed to gain traction, as did a 2011 proposal that didn’t get far either. “There are plenty of talented Americans who shift away from entrepreneurship because the current government is punishing them with high taxes.” Introduced by Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced in 2010.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2013

It''s about making sure you have the protection you need to keep your business operating and your income flowing. These can govern nearly any aspect of what a business does. Only those businesses that made sure their business model could survive the new operational restrictions survived to dial another number.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. As an engineer at Boeing, I had no idea how the company I worked for really operated. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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San Francisco Government Technical Review Community 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

R&D centers established in the center of the country will receive government support of about 19 million shekels ($5.1 Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. ATX Networks Inc. for $26 million.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

See the June 2011 edition after the jump. Given that, the central government deficit fell to 3.8% MediaMind operates in the fast-growing $71 billion global online advertising market, with 37 sales and representation offices covering 64 countries. For previous editions, click here. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE).

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Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision. Aerotel Medical Systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting. Increasing government regulations. After a record low of 39 U.S. Pressures to maintain growth pattern.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Jake Geleerd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC.

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. And much of the story of WeWork is about founder behavior and corporate governance, but even these might have been overlooked had the business been robustly profitable at its core. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. What prompted these insights?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Make sure you’ve considered what you plan to do should critical components of your operation be destroyed. The Canadian government has its own federal loan programs in the event of a disaster. Do you have a secondary option for electricity, water, or other supplies your business depends on? What if things were not insured?

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