Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the middle of the Vietnam War, student riots protesting military research forced the end of classified work on most college campuses. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Shortly after that, I met Pete Newell , the retired head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force – one of the best Lean and agile organizations in the military – and I met Joe Felter an ex Special Forces Colonel. . You can solve major challenges the world faces.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role. How Do the Chinese View Our Actions?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So they systematically designed electronic devices called “jammers&# to shut down each part of the German air defense system. I began to realize a few things: First, everything we had done in electronic warfare in the Vietnam War was just a slightly more modern version of what we had done over occupied Europe in World War II. (And

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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