Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

There are others that we’d welcome to be brought in as well, like Vietnam, like Indonesia. Should the Joint Staff have a structure for the acquisition of capabilities, making sure it matches the modernization of our operational concepts? We have to build into the systems for acquisition a method by which we can be far more agile.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). By rapidly discovering the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and then articulating the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency to deliver timely and needed solutions.).

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AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). By rapidly discovering the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and then articulating the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency to deliver timely and needed solutions.).

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. Vietnam, for example, has strong tech adoption and has nearly 100m people.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. Vietnam, for example, has strong tech adoption and has nearly 100m people.

Asia 48

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

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. And just to make the problem harder, the North Vietnamese had shot down B-52s in December 1972 and given the Soviets the captured electronic countermeasures equipment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War. I remember asking out of the blue one day, “Where does our equipment come from, what is exactly that we’re doing?”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We’ve started to adjust our acquisition approach. And the departments have put out some very useful new guidance on how to approach software acquisition in a very different way than hardware acquisition. We came out of Vietnam. But we’re America, we know how to do this. We came out of the Great Depression.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side.

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