Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. I use the money made from my private clients to launch intelligence operations against our enemies. After two decades of being a housewife, my husband returned from Iraq disabled, sparking a radical shift in our lifestyle.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Newell ran the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. As I later discovered, Joe’s first act was 24 years in the Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), retiring as a Colonel. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Video of the teams live presentation are here. Worth your time to watch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

This week the team worked to understand a day-in-the-life of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) documenting the roles of the captain, lieutenant and a private on a guard tower (slides 5 and 6). Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

This week the team worked to understand a day-in-the-life of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) documenting the roles of the captain, lieutenant and a private on a guard tower (slides 5 and 6). Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We just had our third week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Russian Technology Strategy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here’s what I think a more progressive economy can do to ensure higher growth: Technology has created an unprecedented lack of competition—especially given our reliance on platforms—and it needs to be opened up in order to kickstart more growth. Forty years ago, access to consumers was much more open than it is today. I’m an investor.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 15, 2017

One effort under that umbrella was their Tech Delegation trips, which sent groups of technology executives to foreign countries for week-long working sessions. In April 2009 I was invited to visit Iraq as part of the first delegation. The budget for the State of Maryland is $41 billion, with a $17 billion operating budget.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We just held our eighteenth and final session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. 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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

defense and consumer electronics industries will be set back at least five years — and because China has its own advanced chip foundries, it could become the world leader in technology for the next decade or more. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems. Without them, the U.S.

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