Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. government accelerator that takes no equity.

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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. We came out of Vietnam. And that requires again some culture change.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. One team closed a $200k seed round in the middle of the class.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. One team closed a $200k seed round in the middle of the class.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

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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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

alone, topping half a million — exceeding the number of deaths across World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined) to devastating economic burdens ( exacerbating pre-pandemic record levels of income inequality). of GDP) than at any other time in the last 70 years (government spending on R&D peaked at around 2% in 1964).

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Steve Blank

JULY 12, 2010

The Vietnam War had just ended and I was out of the Air Force back in college living in Ann Arbor Michigan. Unlike my previous attempt at college as a pre-med, four years working with electronics convinced me that perhaps I ought to study engineering. There was only one job that I quit when I feared for my life. Life Is Good.

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