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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

The report came out in 2018, highlighted reliance on foreign suppliers , including China for critical materials such as rare earth elements and microelectronics. For example, China has an 80% market share in rare earth elements, as well. The software acquisition pathway is the newest pathway in the adaptive acquisition framework.

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Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones – P.S. You’re Fired

Steve Blank

But the review needs to go much further than that. Incremental improvements are no longer good enough to keep up with China; the Pentagon needs substantive and sustained changes to its size, structure, policies, processes, practices, technologies, and culture. The Defense Department is at a crossroads. This is no longer sufficient.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

As the epidemic started in China, its economy suffered a lot and it’s still too early to predict the total losses. Initially, analysts thought that as 99% of the confirmed COVID-19 cases were in China, it would be mostly the Chinese economy that would be badly hit. However, reality proved them wrong.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. This is critical since the government is moving toward a speedier payment system, which will reduce the time it takes for victims to get compensation. 3- Multimedia spending.

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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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