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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

Yan Nee Lee, “ 2 Charts Show how Much the World Depends on Taiwan for Semiconductors ” CNBC , Mar. Do you think China can credibly catch TSMC (without an invasion of Taiwan)? Products that are sold commercially and to the DoD are called “dual-use.”). Semiconductors: Technology and Market Primer 10.0” Oppenheimer , Dec.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

The second is a preference for product over strategy. Pretotyping is about what to do before the minimum viable product. Doing it well bakes into the system a preference for hypotheses rather than opinions; fast experiments rather than big plans; and testing ideas and strategies, not just products and technologies.

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Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Steve Blank

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. This has allowed the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) to integrate private capital and commercial technology and use them as a force multiplier to dominate the South China Sea and prepare for a cross-strait invasion of Taiwan.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Final Problem Statement: How can we create an open, free Internet and maintain effective lines of communication in Taiwan in preparation for a potential invasion? Original Problem Statement: Supply and production of lithium-ion batteries is centered in China. If you can’t see the presentation click here. How can the U.S.

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Is Loneliness a Side Effect of Working Remotely?

Transformify

We encourage remote working because we’ve found that a change of scene gives our staff a productivity boost. At first, our management team was wary about permitting remote work, since we had fears about being able to maintain productivity and about colleagues missing meetings. –5 p.m. –5 p.m.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

They converted reefs in international waters into airbases, creating unsinkable aircraft carriers that extend the range of their aircraft and are armed with surface to air missiles make it dangerous to approach China’s mainland and Taiwan. What To Do About It? Then asking, did that solve the problem…no?

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