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

Steve Blank

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. 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.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

I was present at the creation of the first microprocessors, participated in the PC revolution, built video games, and shipped software on the first Internet browsers. Living “phone forward” and connecting to the world through this software seems normal – to you. And when how businesses operated changed forever.

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

Steve Blank

(During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) North Korea. The class will also teach the islands of innovation in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community: how the innovation culture and mindset operate at speed.

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Can the Bitcoin code be forbidden by democratic governments?

The Startup Magazine

Also for a good relationship with the authorities, the state must receive its “lion’s share” The more companies operate legally, the better it is for bitcoin. People will be able to run their home software, become active nodes, or keep miners in the closet no matter what the governors say.