Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century. The course draws on the experience and expertise of guest lecturers from industry and from across the Department of Defense and other government agencies to provide context and perspective.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency. And you’d be right. Since 9/11 the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. I was 33 years in industry, before coming into government. Designing in exploitability early in programs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. — The next wave was Radio.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup. The government isn’t a bigger version of a startup and can’t act like a startup does.

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