Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

(During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) North Korea. Most discussion about innovation of defense systems acquisition using an agile process starts with writing a requirements document. Yet in the last decade the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I was present at the creation of the first microprocessors, participated in the PC revolution, built video games, and shipped software on the first Internet browsers. Living “phone forward” and connecting to the world through this software seems normal – to you. The same is true for the Internet.

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