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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. What’s been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a “playbook.” Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.)

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. Microwave Valley was about to take off. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.)

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply Apolinaras Sinkevicius , on May 20, 2009 at 10:48 am Said: Though I had a very stable family with very good parents, I grew up in a country (Lithuania) that was occupied by Russia for 12 years of my life. of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like.

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When National Security Falls Between the Cracks

Steve Blank

However, Cabinet members who are responsible for vertical portfolios still manage the government’s large functional agencies, and there continues to be significant overlap between those who handle commercial, defense, and diplomatic policy. Originally, all of America’s computer chips were produced in Silicon Valley.