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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. One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

We just held our fourteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. 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.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

We just held our tenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. 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.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Then think some more. The Story Behind the Secret History Part II.