Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Here’s what Will had to say: Competition with China. I view the competition with China as one of the seminal challenges that we’re going to face in this century. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile. You need to be exceptionally fast and agile. It’s not a fait accompli how it’s going to end.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

China’s Anti-Satellite Demonstration. The next demarcation was 2007, when China launched a missile that blew up one of their own satellites into about 3000 pieces of debris. There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency. And you’d be right. Since 9/11 the U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. It fails when facing unknowns.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Act Like a Startup.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them.

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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

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. If you can’t see the SeaWatch 2-minute video click here.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Derek Capo , Next Step China. . Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage. Agencies excel at one-time projects. The length of the project is a good way to determine what you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes. Capability: Focus on customer innovation and agility. These authors are widely recognized, both in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. It fails when facing unknowns.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

We may be waiting for 5G in the UK, but China has been studying G6 since 2018 and started properly testing it with the support of its big national telecommunications companies in 2020, according to editors at inc.com. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. Thanks to Kevin Burke, Extension PR ! #7- 7- 6G will rule.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Building an agile schedule is an important part of reacting to those variables. Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged? Then Lead Them.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., Paradoxically, these very KPIs and processes, which make companies efficient, are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile, responsive innovators. . This is a big idea. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. North Korea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If we find ourselves on the verge of a conflict with China in 20 years, the idea that we might have a fully AI-enabled force by then will not by itself guarantee victory. If on the other hand, in that same 20-year period, China has a fully AI-enabled force and we do not, I believe we will incur an unacceptably high risk of defeat.

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Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

What we can glean from the S-1 is a qualitative understanding of the monetization of each marketplace, as well as a clearer understanding of revenue from the wholesale part of Alibaba (Alibaba.com/1688) vs the retail parts (Taobao, Tmall, Juhuasuan) and how much comes from China vs non-China (<10% of revenue is non-China).

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Agile VC

MAY 9, 2014

One of the first things that caught my eye when I started reading the Alibaba Group S-1 was a section on page 7 of the filing regarding something called the “Alibaba Partnership” It quickly struck me that the Alibaba Group’s corporate governance in some ways mirrors China’s Politburo.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

They helped build the blue collar working class in China and India. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. It is an agile principle, with an iterative method that gets a product or service to market without spending months or years in product development without consumer approval or disapproval. Invest in your brand.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. 3) Computer Network Espionage (CNE) – steal everything you can get your hands ( China and RSA’s SecureID breach , hacks of Google and AWS.). with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. While the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. The same is true for the Internet.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 29, 2013

They are typically using stakeholder-driven roadmaps, project-based funding and staffing, heavy use of contractors and outsourcing, waterfall processes (even when they claim they’re Agile), no effective product role, and minimal if any UX design. I could go on, but you get the idea. The amount of waste at these companies is staggering.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

And sure, there’s a little bit of bull in a china shop in me—but if I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t work nearly as hard, and frankly, I wouldn’t be me. There are user groups, gaming meetups, meetups in security or agile development—lots of places entrepreneurs rarely tread. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. 3) Computer Network Espionage (CNE) – steal everything you can get your hands ( China and RSA’s SecureID breach , hacks of Google and AWS.). with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. While the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

— On China. Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. That worked for a while, but at a certain point, particularly under President Xi, China decided that the hide-and-bide strategy was over. How Should the DoD Spend Smarter?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7]. In Asia, China provides a case in point.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century. We’ve created a network of entrepreneurial students who understand the security threats facing the country and engaged them in partnership with islands of innovation in the DOD/IC. Fast forward to today.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. of the founders surveyed were born in China, 3.8% were born in India.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Example: wechat in China. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Culture of Innovation. Prime was a 6-page memo: inspired by Costco membership model – built as a test.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Ralph Waldo Emerson. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for. One out of ten of Americans are out of work. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so. What went wrong?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Look out China, we’ll advise you into submission! Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game. For example, the Dutch have whopping 67,000 companies in the “Organizational Advisory” segment. In other words, that’s one advisory or coaching firm per 250 Dutch inhabitants.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

As a source of real-time content and information, Twitter really has no peer in most global markets (China being the most notable exception where local clones dominate). In all fairness to Twitter, they’ve build a remarkable product and may be on their way to building a remarkable business.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

An agile approach with responsive design considers these issues from the start, but will require more upfront wireframing, design and testing that are omitted in the waterfall process. In our agile and responsive process, the design must live on a flexible grid. Responsive Web Design. In Summary. POPULAR TAGS. social media. developers.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

China is executing a plan to win with new technologies through its strategy of Military-Civil Fusion—they’ve torn down the barriers between Chinese companies and academia and its military. It needs to use rapid/agile innovation, disposable systems that take advantage of innovations in the commercial technology base.

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