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

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. the government is painfully learning how to reorient its requirements and acquisition process to buy these commercial, off-the-shelf technologies. In the U.S.,

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. And that is what we’ll do.” Now they are partners.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s s primary great power competitor.

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How To Fix Obamacare

Feld Thoughts

Now that our federal government is back at work and the short term debt ceiling thing is resolved, it should be no surprise that the news cycle is now obsessed with Obamacare and its flawed implementation. Set a new launch date of July 14, 2014. I think rather than a tech surge, we should have a “tech retreat and reset.”

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats.

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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

View from Seed

We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later. Putting aside the governance aspects of a traditional board, there is meaningful value in holding a regular meeting with the company’s most important investor(s).

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Entrepreneurs Need To Reality Check Their Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/19/2014. Minimize infrastructure dependencies. One hundred percent of zero is still a small number.