crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We write often about a focus on iteration and agility in startups. At the heart of today’s cynicism about our government and out leaders in Washington is their seeming intractability and their inability to compromise and cooperate. Politicians adjust.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. Every time I go to Washington and spend time at the National Science Foundation or National Institute of Health I’m reminded why the U.S. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. When a Deputy Secretary of State official called the CIA to find out more, he was shocked to realize they had little to no information about the event. The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. I pay monthly subscriptions for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker and National Geographic. Government: California Department of Motor Vehicles. I love governments!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. I think it makes explicable why so-called "best practices" that people bring to startups from other contexts fail so miserably. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. that can make 1,000’s of extremely low cost, attritable systems – “ the small, the agile and the many.” ” Acquire at Speed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. His latest effort, called 2gov.org , makes it easy to contact your local, state and federal governments with just a tweet. Will you join us?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This post is a continuation of a series.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. 21 st Century Frogman. Sign up here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Summit in Washington DC last week. Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

It reminded me about the adage, “when you’re up to your neck in alligators, the last thing you remember is that you were supposed to drain the swamp.&# Memo to Washington – weren’t we were to be the country innovating here? As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This post is a continuation of a series.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb set out to create a guide for anyone interested in starting, growing or leading a modern startup so that they can hit the ground running with a solid plan and foundation with agile and effective sales teams, so that they can avoid and manage the hazards all startups face. Washington D.C. RSVP here Sept. 6: Houston, TX?—?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In a history of totalitarian governments, there's one common thing. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? It's not all about communicating.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

An article he wrote for the Washington Post , published on March 28th, when America was still reeling from the exponential growth and the CDC was telling the public not to wear masks, was the first real call to arms for masks. And so I.For my Washington Post story, I really wanted to anchor it with a specific example of this.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

" In comparison, federal, state, and local government spend around $411 billion a year providing similar safety-net services. " And yet as statistics like the ones above suggest, even today’s most ambitious philanthropists are hard-pressed to match the resources the government has at its disposal. ."

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

But why does the movie business think their solution is in Washington and legislation? In the 1920’s individual states were beginning to censor movies and the federal government was threatening to do so as well. Regulation/Legislation. History and success. Management of Innovation.

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