Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. He runs H4X Labs.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. From its beginning with our Stanford class, Hacking for Defense is now offered in over 50 universities in the U.S.,
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Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2016
While the meme that the only place to build a company is in Silicon Valley has softened, there’s still a strong belief that the best place to be if you are a first time entrepreneur is Silicon Valley. My argument is, and has never been, against Silicon Valley, but rather for the rest of the planet.
Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 26, 2019
The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession. oWOW’s work is supported by many high-profile individuals like the former vice mayor of Oakland, California, Annie Campbell Washington, and Elaine Brown of the Black Panther Party.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 15, 2013
High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley. Richard took this notion a step further in his article High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley and actually did some math. Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online.
Austin Startup
MAY 13, 2019
This year, Oakland and San Francisco, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts, all banned the government’s use of facial recognition technology and others are ‘pausing’ its use. This decision is being talked about a lot and it’s easy to see why. Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash So what do we think of all this at Blink Identity?
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