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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

The return of strategic competition between great powers became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy. government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. Why This Class? Guest Speakers.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Thompson, “ Space as a War-Fighting Domain ” Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2018. Raymond said a focus for the Space Force is being lean and fast, innovative and unified.

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Austin’s Paper Census: Helping Government Break Up with Paper

Austin Startup

They contacted the city to help and Paper Census , a collaboration between ATA and the City of Austin, launched in January 2018. We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. This piece was originally published in GovLoop on August 21, 2018.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

The recognition that the United States is engaged in long-term strategic competition with the Peoples Republic of China and Russia became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy. Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 finalists from around the world will make their pitches before a panel of judges. First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach.

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Lean Startups and the Blockchain

Seeing Both Sides

experimental design, lean startup, design thinking), as well as decades of established governance modeled, are being effectively blown up by Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). These became canons for entrepreneurs around the world as they embarked on the journey for product-market fit.

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