Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

But a half-century ago, the country started to disconnect from each other and our government when we eliminated national service. The unintended consequence of this decoupling is seemingly perpetual wars (we’ve been in Afghanistan for two decades). Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

felt that it was the victim of a strategic technological surprise. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I In 2012, Rep.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government as well as the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. Listen to my entire chat with Matt.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, State Department or other government agencies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

But for those who aren't aware, it's a government stimulus program that effectively says for your employees that make under $100,000 a year, the government will cover your payroll expenses, and rent, and utilities, and some ancillary expenses, for the next two and a half, three months. Now you can't apply until Friday.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

felt that it was the victim of a strategic technological surprise. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, State Department or other government agencies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. We need to wait for the government to fix it." If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

His way of leading is a great example of how people should lead whatever organization they're in – government or business. I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The experience helped him become the top military officer in Afghanistan and director of the CIA. His hope of instilling a lifelong interest in government in the young Ted worked. .” : In the 1980s, a superior officer suggested Petraeus try something different intellectually, so he got a Ph.D. in international relations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We just held our eighteenth and final session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We just had our second 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 (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Next week – Russia.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

defense and consumer electronics industries will be set back at least five years — and because China has its own advanced chip foundries, it could become the world leader in technology for the next decade or more. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems. Without them, the U.S.

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