Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2023

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Reorganize DoD Research and Engineering. Russia will not defer its future plans for aggression to meet our dates. This article previously appeared in Defense News. Today, the U.S. Why Is It Up To Congress?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. A government that's trying to help, but gets in the way.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. New types of disruptive technologies/weapons (China/Russia A2/AD , China’s DF-21D and DF-26B ) can create the need for new doctrine. And that has happened to us.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. We’ve gone global as well.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. New types of disruptive technologies/weapons (China/Russia A2/AD , China’s DF-21D and DF-26B ) can create the need for new doctrine. And that has happened to us.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The new National Defense Strategy states that we need to prepare for competition between major powers, calling out China and Russia explicitly as adversaries, (with China appearing to be the first.) Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

In considering a total risk management plan, boards, senior executives, and risk management teams need to be aware that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the current global crisis for their own benefit by using terms related to the crisis to commit cybercrimes. In Russia, the Hades group is a well-known hacking group.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Countries like Russia, China, Canada, and the United States are involved in drilling races, trying to capture as much of the crude oil market as they can, all the while implementing new energy tech innovation to improve safety, productivity, and environmental impact. Global economic pressures drive the increasing demand for oil.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

My grandparents were forced from Russia. Human talent, marketing, engineering, R&D. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Start-ups don't always interact with the government. Wars have been fought.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

By the mid-18th century, the Empress had decreed that vodka distilleries were the exclusive purview of the government and and in the latter half of the 1700s taxes on Vodka sales were responsible for up to 40% of the Czar’s revenue! The steam engine (70 AD). Drink up, friends… 2.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2023

Wealth and Ownership Amid A Shifting Global Financial Order written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Carol Roth In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carol Roth. And that's the shifting of the global financial order. We just saw the, the second US debt downgrade ever.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Now that I’ve mapped out key first steps that need to be taken and important cultural nuances to be aware of when expanding your business into Asia , many CEOs ask me if they can actually locate their engineering and product teams here and expect the same level of quality they get in the Valley. My simple answer is: absolutely.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers. But there are ways to serve in other parts of the US government.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Globalization goes in reverse. Globalization is going in reverse for the first time in 3 decades. At a company level, global supply chains made it possible to source and build products faster and cheaper with a “just in time” model. But the tide of globalization is starting to ebb.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

It's no longer just a political issue when you're operating in an environment where the government is threatening the otherwise very stable national platform by which you've built your business on. It's easy to take that for granted, but that's why places like Russia have trouble getting their startup community off the ground.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2021

John Garnaut and Bill Bishop, Sinocism , “ Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China ” Sinocism , January 16, 2019. Rob Atkinson, “ Innovation Drag: The Impact of Chinese Economic and Trade Policies on Global Innovation ,” ITIF, January 2020. Next week – Russia. Class 2- Reading Assignment Questions. Lessons Learned.

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