Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ? Humanoid robots are coming… and not just from China. .” Bruce Lee NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Well done Shalev Hulio and team Dream on raising a $100M series B (at a $1.1 Plane is taking off.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek AI sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments. Microsoft unveiled the 3.8B-parameter parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

This increased speed and capacity will require extensive infrastructure investments including “vertical real estate,” like towers and other tall structures; new data centers to process the increased information load; and much more. a third of them in China, according to the global wireless trade group GSMA. By 2025, 1.2

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Governments are also investing heavily in health care to combat chronic and critical illnesses.” Medical device companies based in emerging markets are growing and increasing their market share; Companies like Mindray Medical International and BGI of China, and Transasia Bio-Medicals of India, and Ascendis Health of South Africa.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”. Maybe the public can be better served by the government just subsidizing battery research. with the auto bailout. Reply Michael F.

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APRIL 17, 2020

In this post, I cover the rise of why this is the case, and offer lots of examples of verticals and applications as well as opportunities for startups and streamers. Live e-commerce – livestreaming e-commerce sales are already very popular in China, and one could imagine a QVC for the Gen Z generation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. You couldn’t increase wages, and that was mandated by the government. I like healthcare a lot.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

The truth will take time to percolate, Deepseek claimed they used only 5,000 GPUs- and old ones at that and the real number is estimated at 50,000 (it’s being investigated if the chips were acquired in Singapore, side-stepping the export ban to China). AI is having its moment. You can find the link (and subscribe) here.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

What are the three most important things the Israeli government should do today to accelerate the high-tech engine in the coming year? Within AI, Im particularly excited about the potential of AI Agents and vertical AI applications tailored for specific industries. Is Israel missing out on the AI revolution in the global arms race?

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