Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. There are and we do.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, State Department, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.). In 2012, Rep.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Video of the teams live presentation are here. Worth your time to watch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

That was luck to spot that technology. I was born in Birmingham, which is the second biggest city in the uk, an automotive retail industry kind of community. (13:24): If you keep rolling, you're more likely to roll the double six. But also it led to my first book four years later. So I suppose that's the eyesight location and luck.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

What spending 10 days in a remote village in Nepal has taught me about the role of technology in water sustainability and independence The Origin Story At an early age, my parents instilled in us a sense of empathy for the less fortunate and taught us to be mindful custodians of the world and its precious natural resources.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In his Oval Office speech on Iraq , President Obama acknowledged his concerns about the economy and declared, “Our most urgent task is to restore our economy and put the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work…We must unleash…innovation…and nurture the ideas the spring from our entrepreneurs.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

That was luck to spot that technology. You know, I was born in Birmingham, which is like the second biggest city in the uk, an automotive retail industry kind of community. (15:41): If you keep rolling, you're more likely to roll the double six. So as well as that's the, the eyesight location and luck. So that was huge for me.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. felt that it was the victim of a strategic technological surprise. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. He connects the Lab with the defense user community.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We just held our eighteenth and final session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Dan Lipinski is a six-term Congressman and on the Committee on Science, Space and Technology and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Research and Technology (and one of a handful with a doctorate). Moulton: There was a time in the 1950s and ’60s, when the latest and greatest technology was coming out of the Department of Defense.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here’s what I think a more progressive economy can do to ensure higher growth: Technology has created an unprecedented lack of competition—especially given our reliance on platforms—and it needs to be opened up in order to kickstart more growth. Forty years ago, access to consumers was much more open than it is today.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Government Agencies needed to help their communities build skilled labor pools to attract new industries.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Does its historical advantage in technology innovation expand or contract in the next decade? ” Can you briefly explain what that meant and why you sent me to Iraq? :). The best way to do that was to bring in thinkers and do-ers from America’s technology sector and get them involved in our foreign policy.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Watson recapped the recent Texas legislative sessions, spoke about how Austin’s tech sector will be impacted, and gave advice about how the tech community can best engage moving forward. Read about their amazing journey from Iraq to Austin and consider their catering services for your next event. At the lunch-and-learn, Sen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And we think it’s normal to be on our phones and to be using technology as much as we do driving through lots of traffic and lots of meetings and lots of busy sort of lifestyle. We’re just going to keep playing it by year and keep having that experience for the community in that shared space.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). BMNT does for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community what the REF did for the U.S.

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