Design Document Government 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 15, 2019
The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 26, 2022
Designing new hardware products that have a positive impact on customers is no small feat. There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. By: Kevin Bailey, CEO at Design 1st.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Or nine months because there weren’t any processes and documentation in place — again because it was just one person, who didn’t need that stuff, because after all we’re moving so quickly! But, an illness takes the velocity of the product or quality of support from heroic to zero. Predictability means going slower.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2020
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. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Today’s topic was Acquisition and Sustainment and Modern War.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 6, 2020
There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning. There are certainly some people who are publicly saying that VC-backed businesses shouldn’t take government money.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2018
In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Let’s see what we’ve learned in 100 years of designing controls and automation for aircraft cockpits and pilots, and what it might mean for cars. How do you design for situation awareness ?
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Designed by the Navy’s OPS-20-G team and built at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, this same Computing Machine Lab would build ~25 other types of electromechanical and optical machines , some the size of a room with 3,500 tubes , to assist in breaking Japanese and German codes. The company hit the ground running. Costing $250,000 ($3.2
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