Steve Blank
OCTOBER 6, 2020
faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). And the second, the shift from the DOD contracting everything from defense primes to building software themselves or serving as the integrator for off-the-shelf commercial systems. At the same time, the Department of Defense has finally realized how important software is.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 6, 2020
faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). And the second, the shift from the DOD contracting everything from defense primes to building software themselves or serving as the integrator for off-the-shelf commercial systems. At the same time, the Department of Defense has finally realized how important software is.
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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.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 15, 2020
I got fired from a software sales job, started a systems integrator called MicroSolutions. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Start-ups don't always interact with the government. Mark Cuban : Yeah, I guess. I'm Mark Cuban.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 21, 2020
We have a relatively small window to transform our respective Defense Department from Industrial Age hardware-centric organizations, to Information Age software-centric, more risk tolerant ones. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX.
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." The background in software, I just saw that a lot of my cousins. Government is. I don't know.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2018
In the 10 weeks the students have, Hacking for Defense hardware and software prototypes don’t advance beyond a Technology Readiness Level 4 and remain outside the scope of US export control regulations and restrictions on foreign national participation. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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