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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

as well as in the UK and Australia. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. What started as a class is now a movement. From its beginning with our Stanford class, Hacking for Defense is now offered in over 50 universities in the U.S., He runs H4X Labs.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. And their branding and demand creation activities were going to occur primarily outside of Australia. Get seed funding in Australia.

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The Age of Viral Finance

Start Up Blog

This just happened with Silicon Valley Bank. World’s First Viral Bank Failure Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a very important bank to the startup and tech eco system in the USA. In Australia, banks only require 17.5% As you can imagine, this blog post, raised many eyebrows in Silicon Valley.

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A week in Australia

David Cohen

I’m writing this on my way back from Australia. We met with some of the gang at AirTree VC and learned quite a bit about some of the challenges and opportunities of investing in Australia from them. Now Brisbane and many other cities in Australia are hubs of activity and the ecosystems are really evolving nicely.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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8 of the Best Executive Assistant Conferences in 2018

YoungUpstarts

Locations and Dates: Silicon Valley, CA – March 29, 2018. Silicon Valley, CA – September 21-22, 2018. Sydney, Australia – July 13- 14, 2018. Silicon Valley, CA – November 16 – 17, 2018. This was my first time to this event, and it was awesome!”. Behind Every Leader.