Board Effect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Collaboration and partnerships: Events bring people from various sectors together and they may provide opportunities for board members to explore partnerships with other organizations, government agencies, or businesses that align with their mission and goals. Collaboration may ultimately amplify impact.

Las Vegas 52

Las Vegas St. Louis San Diego Cuba 52

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. Lidia Calzado got a $10,000 loan from ACCION San Diego that allowed her to buy more inventory and thereby circumvent her supplier’s high interest rate.

Colombia 263

Colombia Kenya San Diego Ethiopia 263

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms.

Government 97

Government New York City New York San Diego 97

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2013

Afterwards, the government and their legal enforcement bureaus. She is based in San Diego, California. If and when they do catch your hand in the cookie jar (or in darker, much dirtier places), they can mobilize the gestalt conscience of the worldwide online community to bombard you with internet flames and guilt.

San Diego 124

San Diego California Internet Leadership 124

Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer. (This post is a continuation of the series. See all the H4D posts here. Because of the embedded presentations this post is best viewed on the website.).

San Diego 142

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 142

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

Some of the survey’s key findings include: Texas had three of the top five cities ( Austin , Houston and San Antonio ), while California was home to three of the bottom five ( Los Angeles , San Diego and Sacramento ). Newark, NJ finished last in this year’s rankings.

Virginia 41

Virginia Rhode Island Austin North Carolina 41

Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Mike Hrostoski launched The Conference For Men , a weekend of accelerated personal growth for 300 inspiring men in San Diego on April 25-27. Sonia provides writing and editing services to mid-sized nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses with a social good focus.

Phoenix 75

Phoenix San Diego LLC Community 75

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. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I Lipinski was responsible for helping I-Corps proliferate through the federal government. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

Washington 206

Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 206

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

Southern California 163

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. Thanks to Alice Maples, Recess Everyday LLC !

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 143

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Importantly the Irish government and local businesses roll out the red carpet to make sure everybody visiting leaves with a strong appreciation of the economic benefits for US startups in locating their European headquarters in Ireland vs. all of the other Continental options available.

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Getting students to have a healthy appreciation for how government policy is made — sometimes painfully slowly — is part of the educational process.

Silicon Valley 184

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 184

www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy.

Term Sheet 40

Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Vesting San Diego 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Getting students to have a healthy appreciation for how government policy is made — sometimes painfully slowly — is part of the educational process.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Similarly, when a San Diego government employee offered to photograph a friend’s wedding, he didn’t know it would lead to an extra $3,500 every month. He also didn’t know that several years later those same reviews would still be earning him an average of $700 a month, without any further work on his part.

San Diego 61

San Diego Pennsylvania Africa Security 61

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government. They’re finding that the government doesn’t want to pay for launch and sustainment, but instead would rather be users of commercial data. Hacking for Defense Goes National.

San Diego 135

San Diego Lean Iraq Acquisition 135

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In Washington DC you have government & defense. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. You also have the headquarters of many of the countries largest companies.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government. They’re finding that the government doesn’t want to pay for launch and sustainment, but instead would rather be users of commercial data. Hacking for Defense Goes National.

San Diego 120

San Diego Lean Acquisition Iraq 120

ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? This is the next frontier for government to explore: how can leaders bridge the remaining interpersonal distances that separate people in social networks? Hwang: What we think of as free markets are actually not that free. Q: What parts of the U.S.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley North Carolina San Diego Taiwan 128

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I got back to my little village and there was the indigenous government office about two miles away. Turns out) Grace, my co-founder, was at a bar in San Diego (and) convinced the bouncer … to make every single person vote on their phones for Watsi before they entered the bar. …We We ended up winning the competition.

Costa Rica 120

Costa Rica Silicon Valley San Francisco Harvest 120

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

government commercializes science. It was) General Dynamics in San Diego, a big defense contractor and the guy that we were meeting, he had a huge table sitting on an elevated platform and we could see him from outside but he would not usher us in. Part 2, this post is my interview with Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I remember even just, I grew up in San Diego, so not nearly as far as Turkey and yet, even for me, the first time that I drove around Silicon Valley and saw the headquarters of all the companies that I had had all these relationships with as a customer, as a developer, it was a profound thing. ER : What was it like the first time?

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I mean I grew up in San Diego California as a middle-class white American. They never boasted or bragged or said we defeated the darkness and it's over. They always said to me and my sisters: beware the signs, know your history, be ready. I thought they were paranoid. The list goes on.

San Diego 60

San Diego Silicon Valley California Campaign 60