Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman , Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering. The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And that has happened to us.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. That will take a long time to settle.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. As each new technology created new military systems, new operational concepts were developed (bows and arrows were used differently than rocks, etc.).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. Reorganize DoD Research and Engineering to allocate its budget and resources equally between traditional sources of innovation and new commercial sources of innovation.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Read about all the class sessions here.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone. ” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) Arab countries, stretching from Morocco to the Persian Gulf, have a combined population of about 350 million, with combined GDP equal to nearly 40% of China’s.). Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M). Gett – Taxi hailing and deliveries in Israel, Russia and UK (Raised $102M). Lightricks – Visual processing engine for mobile platforms, creators of Facetune and Enlight (Raised $10M).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Looking to another part of the world, a number of analysts are betting that China, the most populous country on the planet, will take up some demographic slack and be the growth engine of the future.

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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. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time-based definition made sense in the 20 th century when new disruptive ideas took years to research, engineer and deliver. Ironically rapid Horizon 3 disruption is most often used not by the market leaders but by the challengers/new entrants (startups, ISIS , China, Russia, etc.). That’s no longer true in the 21 st century.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Dorian Barak , a China-Israel tech investment expert, said that ‘infrastructure like the new train not only make it faster to reach mainland cities like Dongguan, but also serves as a guidepost for companies seeking to enter or expand their operations in China. It is common knowledge that startups are currently soaring in Russia.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

When the CEO prioritized either distributed or remote work and makes it part of the wiring of how the company operates, it’s effective. I’ve found that secondary/tertiary US cities work better than international locations, with the exception of software/hardware engineering locations.

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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. Criminals are always on the lookout for how they can make money by staying current with global trends and news in much the same way that legitimate corporations operate.

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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. The well system uses three types of rigs which are mounted on trucks.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A light “railway” using high density busses in dedicated traffic lanes is also due to start operating in 2011, and a cable-car connecting the bay area with the academic institutions in the upper part of the city is planned for 2013. Israeli Researchers pursue brain-operated computing. TEVA CEO RANKED 20TH ON FORTUNE LIST.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. You got to create a different operating culture. Today’s topic was The DoD and Modern War.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Cargo ships are gigantic and although they only need to be manned by 20-30 sailors, engineers and mechanics, experience is the number one factor that matters. Trading lanes that were once calm and free, are being contested by geopolitical actors such as Iran, UK, China, USA and Russia. Shipping is being diverted.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

and Russia have a combined 13,800 nuclear bombs, many 10x more powerful than those dropped on Japan. Geo-engineering: These solutions will be able to manipulate large-scale, global environmental processes that affect the entire earth’s climate. Nuclear weapons: The U.S. A team approach, if you will.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. From job search engines, to cab companies, to food delivery services, many of these businesses are growing fast and gaining popularity. Never miss another customer call. Conclusion.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Whereas a search engine, for example, is. If you start a search engine you have to compete with the whole world. But unlike most people they had the technical expertise both to notice that existing search engines were not as good as they could be, and to know how to improve them. A barbershop isnt designed to grow fast.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With a smart grid, you can improve outage detection, speed of data capture, continuing and disaster recovery, field service operations and overall grid modernization techniques.”. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Smart Transportation.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. You need to know all the people I’ve hired or the people I’m about to hire, whether up and down the stack, people in the engineering team, people on the C-suite management team, and what we expect from them. David Zhang.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. These “Dual Companies”, companies that often keep operational presence in their home countries, raise 30% more funding than purely domestic startups. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. These “Dual Companies”, companies that often keep operational presence in their home countries, raise 30% more funding than purely domestic startups. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Stanford as a Center of Microwave and Electronics In 1946 after running the military’s secret 800 person Electronic Warfare Lab at Harvard, Fred Terman returned to Stanford as the dean of the engineering schoo l.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

This weekend I was at a family celebration in New Jersey and spent some time with an uncle who is a chemical engineer by training but also well versed in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures. Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

My grandparents were forced from Russia. Human talent, marketing, engineering, R&D. But this is not a standard operating procedure. MC : We tried to explain to them that throughout history that there's always been circumstances where you wake up one morning and the world is different. Wars have been fought.

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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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