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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build.

San Diego

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I believe everyone is a leader, whether it’s at work, home, church, or in their community. Most business startups begin the same; an idea for a product that fills a void in the market paired with the fantasies of not having anyone to answer to, working from home, and making your own hours. 8 – There was Something Bigger.

San Diego

San Diego Entrepreneur Software Review Southern California

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms. Hey everyone!

Government

Government New York City New York San Diego

On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government

How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. And on and on.

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I But the thing that really caught my attention: his Stanford Ph.D The Innovation Insurgency Spreads. Fast forward a year.

Washington

Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

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. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

Silicon Valley

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. Hacking for Diplomacy student. Getting Lean.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. In Washington DC you have government & defense.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic

Side Business: The Side Hustle Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Similarly, when a San Diego government employee offered to photograph a friend’s wedding, he didn’t know it would lead to an extra $3,500 every month. In addition to the day job, she was also a mom and a yoga teacher and active in her local community. It wasn’t retirement money, but it sure was nice.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. Hacking for Diplomacy student. Getting Lean.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It follows the entrepreneurial journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries to entrepreneurial education and more. Jered Lawson discovered a passion for community farming while in college. That to me just seemed crazy. …

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Costa Rica Silicon Valley San Francisco Harvest

VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

As Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital , a Silicon Valley venture firm that helps build “innovation ecosystems” around the globe, Victor Hwang knows quite a lot about what it takes to create an environment where high-tech startups can grow and thrive. Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley?

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

He spent a few years working at the tech startup SpeedDate before following through with his original plan, after which Udemy went on to be enormously successful. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! This is not an ordinary year and it requires us to take extraordinary steps to safeguard our community and our nation. I mean I grew up in San Diego California as a middle-class white American. Your passion and enthusiasm is contagious. The list goes on.

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