Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I remember even just, I grew up in San Diego, so not nearly as far as Turkey and yet, even for me, the first time that I drove around Silicon Valley and saw the headquarters of all the companies that I had had all these relationships with as a customer, as a developer, it was a profound thing. ER : What was it like the first time?

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. Welcome to the future.

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. A very basic prototype, built primarily by team member Kian Katanforoosh , a master’s student in computer science and management science & engineering, is already up and running.

Silicon Valley 184

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 184

Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer. Examples are a company-owned manufacturing facility, big data or machine learning engineers, DOD proposal writers, venture capital, etc. (This post is a continuation of the series. See all the H4D posts here.

San Diego 142

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 142

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. In Washington DC you have government & defense. eBay and others. Get over it.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. A very basic prototype, built primarily by team member Kian Katanforoosh , a master’s student in computer science and management science & engineering, is already up and running.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120