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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

The class emphasized that winning future conflicts requires more than just adopting new technology and developing new weapon systems. Next, we described the US strategies developed since World War Two to gain and maintain our technological and competitive edge during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Today the U.S.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Advice To Young Entrepreneurs – Think Like An Immigrant!

YoungUpstarts

In Iran, where I’m from, people go to work at 5 a.m. Patrick Bet-David is an entrepreneur, author, visionary and self-made success who emigrated from war-torn Iran to the U.S. Advice For The Young At Heart entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David personal development personal motivation startup work culture work ethic' six days a week.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2

Steve Blank

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Trying to kill one of these to free up money for new weapons development is a major political problem. Slides 10-13).

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

Both Sides of the Table

So either the future is a Lunch.com like sacking of websites like Trip Advisor (which given that he sold them his last travel venture for some serious bank sounds very plausible) or somebody developing technology to enable all of the existing products including Yelp, Zagat, RottenTomatoes – even Amazon.com – to be sliced better.

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Why Women Make The Best Product Managers

SVPG

As an example of what I mean here, for each of the six women I highlighted, in every case, their only real hesitation was that readers of my article might not give enough credit to their team. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.