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

Steve Blank

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government.

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

Threat actors aren’t below the idea of using hot topics, occasions, or popular personalities in their social engineering strategies to commit crimes. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. North Korea. All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels. Yet in the last decade the U.S. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

The class is joint listed in Stanford’s International Policy department as well as in the Engineering School, in the department of Management Science and Engineering. — Why This Course? Bookending the class will be two past secretaries of Defense – Ash Carter and Jim Mattis.

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

North Korea says huh, what, wait, it wasn’t us and seeks a joint probe with US on Sony hack (yeah – like that is going to happen.) I wonder if they still use Lycos or Ask Jeeves as their search engine. Oh, and did you realize the US government actually made a $15 billion profit on TARP ?