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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup. The government isn’t a bigger version of a startup and can’t act like a startup does.

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Bitcoin has value only from the drug dealers, money launderers, illegitimate governments, and black market moguls who see Bitcoin as a valuable exchange to conceal their dirty doings. Second, governments can block people from using Bitcoin as a measure of exchange. You can’t fight city hall, let alone every major world government.

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia. Not long after the attacks from Russia, North Korean hackers also used malware as a lure to inform people about the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. — The next wave was Radio.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. They can do so because most have little legacy organizational baggage, no government overhead, some of the best software talent in the world, cheap manpower costs, no career risk when attempting new unproven feats and ultimately no fear of failure. Yet in the last decade the U.S. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Diplomats

crowdSPRING Blog

With the red-hot temperature around the crisis in Syria reduced to a mere boil, and the government in North Korea backing away from the brink I gave some thought this week to what entrepreneurs could learn from global leaders and diplomats in general. ” defined as a folded paper or document.

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Small Business Tips: Foreign Payments, The Patriot Act, OFAC, and you.

crowdSPRING Blog

The Office of Foreign Assets Control administers and enforces various economic sanctions programs; you may be familiar with the restrictions and embargoes that are placed on countries such as North Korea or Iran which are designed to put foreign policy pressure on those and other governments.