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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. Did you not understand your customer's pain point well enough in your lean startup process?

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of the 43 U.S.-based