Agile Government Vietnam 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
In the middle of the Vietnam War, student riots protesting military research forced the end of classified work on most college campuses. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup.
Steve Blank
MAY 23, 2016
When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Shortly after that, I met Pete Newell , the retired head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force – one of the best Lean and agile organizations in the military – and I met Joe Felter an ex Special Forces Colonel.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Yet while the U.S.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc. They helped build the blue collar working class in China and India.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 1, 2016
college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. One team closed a $200k seed round in the middle of the class.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 1, 2016
college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. One team closed a $200k seed round in the middle of the class.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But we haven’t necessarily trained our acquisition people, incented them to have a greater risk tolerance that’s required for this agile development of emerging technologies. We came out of Vietnam. What can we give back?
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