Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

The Air Force turned out to be the first melting pot I would encounter (Silicon Valley the next) where individuals from different classes and culture had the opportunity to share a common goal and move beyond the environment they grew up in. Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The goal of Hacking for Allies , (which will launch a second cohort next week,) is to connect dual-use startups (those that sell to companies and government agencies) in allied nations to the U.S. Last fall, Russia conducted a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament. defense ecosystem. defense market. Register here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite 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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

But if the second, more realistic camp wins out – one that looks at malign activities of competitor states, like China and Russia, and focuses on defending American influence and liberal values internationally – I think there will be a striking amount of continuity. I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Given its inward focus, Berkeley has always been the neglected sibling in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Sure, Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest startup region anywhere. Did you know founders in Silicon Valley work longer hours than founders anywhere else? ” (See Move Your Start-Up To Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000.).

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design 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. And that has happened to us.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. ai, Joby Aviation, and other Silicon Valley standouts navigate funding gaps.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has long been the barometer for engineering and product talent, but that same caliber of skill that startups need is also available across Asia. Cast a wide net.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

From [link] to the Silicon Taiga , these programs offer entrepreneurs funding, infrastructure and support in an effort to lure a critical mass of promising young companies and spawn the next Silicon Valley. The Dropboxes and Instagrams of the world still flock to the original Silicon Valley. None has succeeded.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Following two days with a dozen startups at a brand-new incubator in Kiev called “ Happy Farm ,” it was time to head to my next stop: Skolkovo , the private Moscow business school formed to bring Silicon Valley-quality training to young Russian entrepreneurs. Your visa to Russia has already been used. No exceptions.”

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

There was a huge kerfluffle over the weekend about racism in Silicon Valley which tried to end when Michael Arrington wrote a post titled Oh Shit, I’m A Racist. The customer site is a government owned military installation. Especially at a government facility. In the United States. In the tech business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve spent my life at the center of innovation in Silicon Valley – doing eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching others innovation and entrepreneurship. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. Let me be honest about my bias. I love technology.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. That approach doesn’t work anymore. Newell ran the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia.

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