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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. One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Twitter Link Roundup #171 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

A Stress-Free Approach to Adopting New Marketing Technologies – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Rare recount of escaping North Korea – [link]. Building your backlist (and living with it forever) – [link].

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

I love technology. 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. The same is true for the Internet.

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

Steve Blank

Up until the dawn of the 21 st century, they defined military technology superiority. Our defense and intelligence community owned and/or could buy and deploy the most advanced technology in the world. Not only were they insulated from technological disruption, they were often also the disrupters. North Korea.

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Watch Out for Seven Traits Of A Dominant Visionary

YoungUpstarts

Believing she would ultimately succeed, Elizabeth Holmes layered lie on lie and hid the fact that Theranos technology could not deliver the promised performance. Bending the truth and other forms of deception coexist easily when there is belief it is all done to help create a better world. Small lies are a slippery slope.

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Can the Bitcoin code be forbidden by democratic governments?

The Startup Magazine

Prohibition of the technology. Let’s not forget that bitcoin is not a coin in itself; the Bitcoin Code is a technology, a code on people’s private computers. No democratic government will ever ban technology. Clearly, the blockchain technology has fantastic potential. This is the basis of technology.