Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government as well as the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. —– But first some history… World War II. In World War II the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. Listen to my entire chat with Matt.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, State Department or other government agencies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, State Department or other government agencies.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

But for those who aren't aware, it's a government stimulus program that effectively says for your employees that make under $100,000 a year, the government will cover your payroll expenses, and rent, and utilities, and some ancillary expenses, for the next two and a half, three months. Now you can't apply until Friday.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 2, 2012

First it requires the rule of law: good governance to enforce fair, stable laws regarding property rights, human rights, and social stability … Second, it requires sociocultural traditions of accountability, transparency, morality, and trust in politics and business.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Upon his return he became a public figure but he was never allowed an access to any classified information let alone advise the government on SDI – nor anything else for that matter.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

But a half-century ago, the country started to disconnect from each other and our government when we eliminated national service. The unintended consequence of this decoupling is seemingly perpetual wars (we’ve been in Afghanistan for two decades). Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The first time you use it in Afghanistan you realize you never trained it against data that had women wearing full-length black burkas, it didn’t know what those were. The relationship ended when Google employees forced the company’s withdraw­­­ from the project. Interesting little problem.

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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. In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S. Lessons learned.

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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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff served in the U.S.

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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. We need to wait for the government to fix it." Government is. We were imagining that this would be for either.We So, it's kind of a hybrid learning environment.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

His way of leading is a great example of how people should lead whatever organization they're in – government or business. I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The experience helped him become the top military officer in Afghanistan and director of the CIA. His hope of instilling a lifelong interest in government in the young Ted worked. .” : In the 1980s, a superior officer suggested Petraeus try something different intellectually, so he got a Ph.D. in international relations.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 5, 2018

whether in government or private enterprise. It documents his career in the Obama administration working under Richard Hoolbrook on diplomacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and under Secretary Clinton in the State Department. The summary of Ronan’s article is that Les Moonves made unwanted advances to actresses, writers and producers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As a former Marine, Matt had 3 combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. The hope was that helping China grow its economy would lead to liberalization of its government and greater freedoms for its people. hoped that helping China grow its economy would lead to liberalization of its government and greater freedoms for its people.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This is not a government that’s run in Washington and does its own thing like Beijing does, or Moscow does in their country. This is a government of the people, by the people for the people. I was a marine three-star in Afghanistan. Well, the first point I would make is, we need every one of your good ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Joe stated that the standoff between Trump’s executive branch and the judicial branch is the first time since the Civil War that two branches of government were so at odds with each other and if it can’t be resolved then “the Constitution doesn’t work anymore.” And we got through that!”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The committee found that Huawei could not or would not explain its relationship with the Chinese government and did not comply with U.S. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems. Make no mistake, these are not government pronouncements that don’t end up going anywhere.

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