YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market. By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In building ESL Perry made a conscious choice to emulate Hewlett Packard (then considered the “gold standard” of a great technology company.) Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Since recording this interview, Jason Kander announced that he was taking a step back from political life to deal with depression and PTSD symptoms he was experiencing as a result of his tour in Afghanistan. Upon returning from his tour in Afghanistan, Kander returned to his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri and became involved in politics.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2010

The Apple iTablet has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is being dropped by warplanes. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Ingredients of The Apple iTablet include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. Do not taunt The Apple iTablet.

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deal architect

MAY 26, 2013

On the Innovation blog The Walking Billboard The next generation of UI Essay Grading Software Home theater with small room and budget The Amazing logistics of the Afghanistan withdrawal The Long Data of the PGA Tour The “Glass Collective” A. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I had been working on research that focused on regenerative medicine and also training in cardiology, and started to wonder if some of the emerging technologies of stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and our understanding of how cells become complex tissues, could be applied to fields beyond the biomedical sciences.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. They have plenty of those. That’s a win for everyone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. They have plenty of those. That’s a win for everyone.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

We just held our fourteenth 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

APRIL 13, 2021

The unintended consequence of this decoupling is seemingly perpetual wars (we’ve been in Afghanistan for two decades). Technology that was supposed to bring us together has instead sold out the country for partisanship and division, for profit over national interest.

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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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deal architect

AUGUST 15, 2012

Mobile Payments in Afghanistan Amazon’s continued logistical excellence Comic-Con: Nerd-Fest. on the innovation blog CNN’s Chief Innovation Correspondent 5 Geek Family Trips Citi at 200 Theme Parks – a global growth industry The Ultimate Repair Shop Serious?

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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

JULY 19, 2017

In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. Dan Lipinski (D-Il), ranking member on the House Research and Technology Subcommittee, got on an airplane and flew to Stanford to see first-hand the class that would become I-Corps. In 2012, Rep.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6 percent of women are literate, according to the millennial census – though this data is of course nearly 15 years old.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

From left, Skydio CEO Adam Bry demonstrates the company’s autonomous systems technology for Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, during a visit to the company’s facility in San Mateo, Calif. Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza/U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Afghan Dreamers is the story of an all-girls robotics team in Afghanistan who risks it all to prove that they can compete against anyone worldwide. Our first project was Feld Technologies reselling (not very successfully) a software product called DataRoute that David wrote for his father’s law firm.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The teaching team consisted of: Pete Newell is a retired Army Colonel currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy and CEO of BMNT. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation. Our Hacking for Diplomacy sponsors at State gave us 15 problems for the students to solve.

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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. The teaching team consisted of: Pete Newell is a retired Army Colonel currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy and CEO of BMNT.

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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

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. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. Map those ideas to the technology that could be used to solve them. In World War II the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation. Our Hacking for Diplomacy sponsors at State gave us 15 problems for the students to solve.

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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. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2010

Energy Technology — revolution is both a necessity and an opportunity, and they do not intend to miss it. We, by contrast, intend to fix Afghanistan. The Beijing leadership clearly understands that the E.T. Have a nice day. via www.nytimes.com. I still want to know where all the Green jobs are.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) For example, missions into Afghanistan are 6-8 hours versus normal mission times of 2-3 hours.). Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Navy , Science and Industrial Policy , Technology. that’s pretty easy. Thanks to the crew of the U.S.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

The REFs goal was to get out of the building and into the field to get a deep understanding of soldiers’ problems, then get technology solutions to these problems into the hands of front-line soldiers in days and weeks, instead of the military’s traditional months and years.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise. Both share an exceptional way of dreaming and executing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

The REFs goal was to get out of the building and into the field to get a deep understanding of soldiers’ problems, then get technology solutions to these problems into the hands of front-line soldiers in days and weeks, instead of the military’s traditional months and years.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Cindy on Twitter @cindywearsred #SXSW #Formula1 #EventPlanner #EventProfs #TrilogyMafia Colin Guinn is one of the pioneers of drone technology, serving as CEO of DJI in the US through their rapid expansion before launching Guinn Partners, a startup studio focused on anything that rolls, swims, or flies by itself.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Buy these sandals and we'll contribute money to building schools in Afghanistan for girls who otherwise couldn't go to school. I mean when you go back over the last 50 years and you look at the greatest technological achievements, most of them came from this country. Buy a pair of socks, we'll give away a pair of socks.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2010

Many in the article claim that this is a nice thought, but that other issues – Iran nuclear policy, Iraq and Afghanistan, and Israel – matter far more. Here is the official summit page and here is the official White House Press Briefing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Layered Technologies (LayeredTech) manages most of the Wordpress.com infrastructure. Technology got better, Im not sure if the buzz words have. In the wake of the outage, we started looking at what infrastructure Wordpress.com uses to serve its 10 million blogs. Wordpress.com is run from data centers in Chicago and San Antonio.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

Simon Zhang spent three years as a financial and tax consultant at Deloitte Canada with a focus on businesses in mining, financial services and technology sectors. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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