Remove 2017 Remove Software Review Remove Technology
article thumbnail

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

Steve Blank

We just completed the fourth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (America’s influence and footprint on the world stage).

article thumbnail

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

Steve Blank

We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. The return of strategic competition between great powers became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York. You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. How To Apply .

article thumbnail

Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. The best startups start from a painful problem needing a solution, rather than a technology solution looking for a problem. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

article thumbnail

How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

article thumbnail

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

article thumbnail

Startups – Integrating Security Mindset and Processes Early

YoungUpstarts

Combine this with the fact that third-party code or library integration is almost unavoidable these days. It is important from the onset to set simple rules to help ensure coding best practices are followed while dealing with the sheer number of technologies and languages that can be involved in a single project.

Security 206