Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. Five years ago, Joe Felter , Pete Newell and I realized that few of our students considered careers in the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community.

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