Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine. And that has happened to us. As we described how the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We just held our tenth 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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Thus founders seeking funding for a good cause or a new technology often seize on grants from universities, government agencies and philanthropic organizations as free money to solve their problems. Every technology advance has the potential to help people in the medical, environmental or cultural sense. Technology is not enough.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To complicate the audit, the department has 326 different and separate financial management systems, 4,700 data warehouses and over 10,000 different and disconnected data management systems. challenges in finance, auditing and data management. Nothing in our charter asked the advisory board to invent the future.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Video of the teams live presentation are here. Worth your time to watch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. In many cases I look at an SBIR and say "how about I just build that and sell it to you when it's done," but that is unrealistic today. Halling said.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Prior to his public service, Javier spent 20+ years in investing, management, entrepreneurial and public policy, starting as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Booz, Allen and at Abbott Laboratories. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

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Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. Much like the NIH SBIR program.) The Future.

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