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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. 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.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

Steve Blank

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. We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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21 Entrepreneurs Share How They’re Incorporating Corporate Service Responsibility (CSR) In Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

7- Providing free resources Photo Credit: Will Yang As a software provider, we streamline CSR in our operations by making it accessible and easy to use. For example, in April of 2022, we donated 10 tonnes of aid to Ukraine. Their goal is to generate both monetary wealth and value for the society in which they operate.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby

Steve Blank

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. We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. In your mind, what is different in the way companies need to operate in that post-unicorn stage? . You know, a lot of times, what we hear is: “Hey, what does the company do is $5 billion of equity value is $10 billion.”

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UK venture post Brexit – plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

The Equity Kicker

Grexit, Russia/Ukraine and terrorism spring to mind as recent examples. As operators and investors in this market the best thing to do is get our heads down and focus on building our portfolio. There are risks to that prediction, but for most of the time since 2008 we have had geopolitical risks hanging over us.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. Two months of work and $2500.