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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. We discussed guerilla p.r., You can register for the next roundtable here.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

New York Angels. Band of Angels (Silicon Valley). New Mexico Angels. Sand Hill Angels (Silicon Valley). The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. Ohio TechAngels (Columbus). Wilmington Investor Network (NC).

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. I wrote a few articles around the coronavirus that got viewed by over 60 million people, and that pushed me from really not a person very well known in the coronavirus world to appearing on the news and in different newspapers. His name is Tomas Pueyo.