VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. In many cases, the failures (financially, morally etc) happened because of a charismatic founder and not enough governance. Need for Speed, indeed.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. The same holds true for Government organizations, albeit with more serious consequences. It’s a textbook case of the Innovators Dilemma.

Government 329

Government Non-Compete Ukraine Acquisition 329

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. What is unique about Wicked Problems?

Lean 295

Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 295

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany.

Distribution 145

Distribution Global Agile Startup 145

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are now facing their own disruption from ISIS.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Lean Agile 120

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified.

Ukraine 325

Ukraine China Private Equity Russia 325