Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Video of the teams live presentation are here. Worth your time to watch.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. New donors from community. Mashable made the public announcement, and Giving Tuesday quickly went viral.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. 18 years have passed and lots of things have changed, thus my most important goal these days is to keep up with the technology regarding the internet. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Everett Stern.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. He connects the Lab with the defense user community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. He offered context for the government’s innovation efforts: The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

What spending 10 days in a remote village in Nepal has taught me about the role of technology in water sustainability and independence The Origin Story At an early age, my parents instilled in us a sense of empathy for the less fortunate and taught us to be mindful custodians of the world and its precious natural resources.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Does its historical advantage in technology innovation expand or contract in the next decade? ” Can you briefly explain what that meant and why you sent me to Iraq? :). The best way to do that was to bring in thinkers and do-ers from America’s technology sector and get them involved in our foreign policy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here’s what I think a more progressive economy can do to ensure higher growth: Technology has created an unprecedented lack of competition—especially given our reliance on platforms—and it needs to be opened up in order to kickstart more growth. Forty years ago, access to consumers was much more open than it is today.

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