Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military. They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context.
Austin Startup
MARCH 15, 2017
By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.
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Austin Startup
MARCH 19, 2017
Talent in Austin’s isn’t just more affordable, it’s easier to retain talent because they are less likely to get poached by the hot startup in Silicon Valley. It’s easy to raise seed funding and it’s not harder than anywhere else outside of Silicon Valley to raise a Series A (and much easier than most places).
Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2019
Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. A year later he and his new wife headed to the South to work for Georgia Legal Services. My first story is that t he Smartest person in the room is almost never the most effective. They remind me of what Michael might have become.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 27, 2013
California’s Silicon Valley and New York tend to hog the headlines as America’s most lauded hotbeds of innovation, but Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) wants to prove that the country’s South also features plenty of innovative startups that can challenge for dominance in the global marketplace.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2023
No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. Silicon Valley wouldn’t have a computer company until 1966 when Hewlett Packard shipped the HP 2116 minicomputer.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 1, 2016
Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). 15 more schools are in the pipeline.
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