Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 Education institutions can purchase special bulk licenses, if they want to buy and distribute core texts rapidly. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. The threat is here; it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. This post offers a few days’ worth of thinking about what I saw. (If

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

One result of this experiment: the risk for the sons and daughters being sent into harm’s way is no longer evenly distributed across all segments of society. The unintended consequence of this decoupling is seemingly perpetual wars (we’ve been in Afghanistan for two decades).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology. Right now, we have the technology to do it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well. I love the way that technology is putting itself to use, or people are putting technology to use for very good work here.

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