Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. Personnel Costs and the DoD Budget. The military has the same problem that the rest of society – funding health care and retirement costs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In fact, what's been widely circulated on the internet the past few months is a speech that President Obama gave in the middle of the Ebola response at NIH in December of 2014, which my team helped write, where he said, in December of 2014, "Hey, Ebola is a dangerous, horrible disease, but it's hard to spread.

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