Agile Engineer Government Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. billion U.S.
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Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. Where is it going? or Euro-centric phenomenon.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., A good way to think about valuation in seed/pre-seed is to reverse engineer the next round. Need for Speed, indeed. Our goals, their goals.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2011
I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Venture Capital. This isn’t some small-time effort. Corporate Connections.
Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2022
You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. AI/ML in Collection.
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