Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. We have stakeholders two or three times a day in the White House situation room, grappling with everything from the crisis in Syria to Ebola to the refugee crisis around the world,” he said.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. We have stakeholders two or three times a day in the White House situation room, grappling with everything from the crisis in Syria to Ebola to the refugee crisis around the world,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. Prices down. Network Up. But what else? It is open and empowering. Which leads to disenfranchisement. And rebellion.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) And they have been selling these systems to other countries (Iran, Syria, Egypt, etc.). Politics: In Silicon Valley most startups fail.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. That undervalued attribute in life and in tech. I was on NPR this week with Peter Thiel and Gregory Zuckerman of the WSJ.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

23 Things That Could Only Exist In Silicon Valley – crowdspring.co/17ZRyB7. What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria – [link]. The 13 Biggest Failures from Famous Entrepreneurs and What They’ve Learned from them | The Buffer Blog – [link]. 4 Hiring Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs Make – crowdspring.co/17UJnpL.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Yesterday I watched Kumail Nanjiani’s (of Silicon Valley the TV show fame) biopic “The Big Sick” about his life growing up Pakistani-Muslim in Chicago as a struggling, young comedian when his white girlfriend becomes sick and he has to spend time with her family and deal with interracial, inter-religious rituals and norms.

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