Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

Pete Newell, Joe Felter and I met over coffee in 2016 to discuss our common goal – how to get students in research universities who would never consider working on national security problems engaged in keeping the country safe and secure. Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did. And why I did it.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Team: Learn2Win. If you can’t see the Learn2Win 2-minute video click here.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. Yet in the last decade the U.S.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups. Silicon Valley, California, USA. Top 10 Hot Incubators to Join in Silicon Valley. AngelList Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Next, we wanted the students to learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. Origins of the class.

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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. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I Our first Hacking for Defense class in 2016 blew past our expectations – and we had set a pretty high bar. Hacking For Defense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016. We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. They put in place measures to try to prevent the worst-case scenario, and yet our government has bungled and stumbled into the kind of disaster that we're seeing now. It's an environment problem.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S. has been down about 10% over the past 15 years.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

But while some of America’s most powerful lawmakers focus on cutting Big Tech down to size, how many of the major challenges we face, as a country and as part of the greater global community, can we solve without major technological activity and innovation? That’s why Ro Khanna’s perspective is valuable in this moment.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. Riverside Acceleration Capital : Closed Fund I for $50m in 2016. Key elements: . “We Fund II has raised over $100m as of mid-2019. .

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Rapid urbanization is a crisis.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

RD: After the 2016 election this is going to sound obvious but: our social network framework has created an easily-manipulatable environment that allows the loudest voices to get the most attention, facts be damned. After 2016, I think attitudes on that have changed too, because now it’s affecting all types of people.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 21, 2017

Data analysis of my 2017 calendar would suggest a strong correlation between drives down to Silicon Valley and the Crooked Media podcast schedule. That’s also why the libertarian view that things would be better if government just got out of the way isn’t always true. It’s really the only way to deal with 101 traffic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! This is not an ordinary year and it requires us to take extraordinary steps to safeguard our community and our nation. In 2016, I take this very seriously. I can't tell you how moving it is to get to shake so many hands of entrepreneurs from around the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Data from 2016 showed the percentage of job seekers starting their own business was the highest it had been in four years. As marketing specialist Guy Kawasaki said , If you look at the truly great start-ups that have come out of Silicon Valley, they’ve been hyper frugal. This is good news. in the early days, Microsoft.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The New York Times revealed that Uber had been using a feature that showed people it suspected to be government officials a fake version of the app that would deny them a ride when in areas where Uber was illegal. I do not recall, in the entire history of Silicon Valley’s obsession with Uber and their ever-growing valuations.

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