Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
For many investors and entrepreneurs in the West, doing business in Russia can seem like a step into the unknown. With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia in numbers.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2011
You find early stage employees expecting to work normal hours, to get paid a regular salary, and not asking or expecting equity. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. There isn’t much of a killer instinct among the masses.
Gust
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Last fall, Russia conducted a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament. The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment , Innovation Norway , and H4XLabs ( BMNT’s early stage tech accelerator) just ran the first Hacking for Allies cohort of Norwegian companies. The teams were guided using the “player-coach” approach.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2021
Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies. This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces.
Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. Early-stage investors don’t read business plans. Even those who asked for them never read them. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class. Lessons Learned.
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