Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Pete is managing partner for BMNT Partners and serves on the Board of Directors for Solace Power and Savonix.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform. Both share an exceptional way of dreaming and executing.

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Amber on Twitter @amberallen_aa #Gaming #Esports #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #MixedReality #AmbersReality Andy Tryba recently launched a new company with Donald Park from Vista Equity, called Ionic Partners, after almost a decade running companies for Joe Liemandt.

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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. Sign up here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included CNAS “The Next Defense Strategy” series , Sustaining the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy , Enhancing Forward Defense: The Role of Allies and Partners in the Indo-Pacific , Make China the Explicit Priority in the Next NDS , the Indo-Pacific Strategy Report , Lessons for a Future War.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. Army – build teams that deliver solutions to complex problems, with access to the entire network of suppliers and partners that Newell and Felter developed throughout their careers. war fighting strategy in both Gulf Wars.

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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

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. Often, they struggle with understanding which person or group represents a beneficiary, supporter, advocate or potential key partner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2010

When the commanding general of the Afghanistan campaign saw this slide he remarked, “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war.&#. The NY Times recently published a story on the overuse of Powerpoint presentations in the military and used this slide as an example of the madness. Entertain them.

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Transformify

MARCH 3, 2022

First, it was the refugee crisis in Afghanistan when hundreds of thousands of people fled Afghanistan in fear of the Taliban regime. Through its network of local partners in Ukraine, Rebuild Lives assists displaced people in applying for Individual Entrepreneur status in Ukraine remotely. The Solution. What about taxes?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Buy these sandals and we'll contribute money to building schools in Afghanistan for girls who otherwise couldn't go to school. My partner, Martin, and I did just that. My partner, my spouse works, it's not a stress for me. We are seeing more and more companies over the last three years that have a social component to them.

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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. Sometimes, I'm in negotiations with partners around revenue or something. It's actually our partners, NWEA that published their assessment. That helps.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. He is husband, father, former Army captain who served in Afghanistan. Transcript of Becoming a Great Leader, No Matter What Field You’re In written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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