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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

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. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), Two Items for the Bucket List. Two bucket list items got ahead of my blogging so I’ve combined the final two lecture weeks of the class into this one blog post. We just held our eighth and ninth weeks of the Hacking for Defense class.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures.