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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Does the story of a superpower ignoring distant threats from seemingly weak competitors sound familiar from the class discussions on China? Over this course you’ve heard from the leading voices across the military, government, and industry issue a call to action. and China in the near, mid, and long-term time frames.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s China’s goal is to challenge and overturn the U.S.-led This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. Influenced by the rapid growth of the bike-sharing craze in China, a savvy Uber employee spun out to create Bird. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society were grappling with.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

There were two main reasons that I could distill from their kind words of solace: 1) the existing NorCal investor didn’t know me well enough & 2) the new NorCal investor had a good knowledge of and presence in China, which they believed would be critical. I also spent two weeks in China and vowed to make it back frequently.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

There were two main reasons that I could distill from their kind words of solace: 1) the existing NorCal investor didn’t know me well enough & 2) the new NorCal investor had a good knowledge of and presence in China, which they believed would be critical. I also spent two weeks in China and vowed to make it back frequently.

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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Initiate a visible campaign against a common competitor. This could be fighting some government bureaucracy with your technology, or “supporting” unhappy customer efforts against an unpopular competitor. A mindset of killing your competitors is not always the key to expediting your own growth and success.

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