Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We just held our fifth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. 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.

Technical Review 369

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology United States 369

Board Effect

JULY 7, 2021

If your business is in the science, technology, or health field, the federal government is a good place to begin looking for grants. Two notable federal grant programs are the Small Business Innovation Research grant program (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR). Review your business plan.

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Government SBIR Small Business Technical Review 98

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. Several will join the new Stanford Gordian Knot Center which is focused on the intersection of policy, operational concepts, and technology.

Lean 394

Lean Security Asia SBIR 394

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) While I authored this blog post, this class is a team project. Student Feedback. Student feedback on the class is here.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 306