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How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices

Steve Blank

It almost always starts with a Program Executive Office. The DoD buys hundreds of billions of dollars of products and services per year, and nearly all of these purchases are managed by Program Executive Offices. A Program Executive Office may be responsible for a specific program (e.g., How do you get their attention?

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Last year a set of specific AI apps caught everyone’s attention as AI finally crossed from the era of niche applications to the delivery of transformative and useful tools – Dall-E for creating images from text prompts, Github Copilot as a pair programming assistant, AlphaFold to calculate the shape of proteins, and ChatGPT 3.5

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

Before Brose moved into the civilian world at Anduril , he was the staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee overseeing all the programs, policies, and resources of the Department of Defense, as well as confirming the Department’s senior civilian and military leaders. Making Change Happen. The DOD admits they have a problem.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Paycheck Protection program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. Check if the the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) which provides 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses, can apply to your company. Also see if the the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program applies. Workers can return.

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How To Reinvent Yourself As A Business Startup Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional.

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