Mucker Lab

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Sam is a Persian Prince – and you know I am deeply proud of our shared Iran roots – and Theodor is Swedish. Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. One of the main reasons I got involved with Everipedia is that I really like the ethnicities of my cofounders.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2013

There used to be a perception that Israeli start-ups had great technology, but were weak at growing sales and marketing and so had to sell out to bigger companies early in their lifecycle, precluding the opportunity to build very valuable companies. These elements suggest a bright future for Start Up Nation. A bright future, indeed.'

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Trading lanes that were once calm and free, are being contested by geopolitical actors such as Iran, UK, China, USA and Russia. New rules and regulations spew out of government offices every single day. Shipping is being diverted. Subtle changes that might impede an entire load are very common.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We just had our third week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Russian Technology Strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The fundamental lesson we need to learn from our history is not that we should halt or reverse innovation, but rather that we need to evolve new technology and its interface with society. We need to collectively debate and then decide how the concepts of free speech and dialogue should evolve and adapt to new technologies like social media.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions 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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We face authoritarian governments in China, in Russia, in Iran and North Korea, governments that not only oppress their own people, Tibetans, Uighurs , those in Hong Kong, but that offer the world a dystopian vision of control. For the first time in a century, the United States is no longer guaranteed to win the next war.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions 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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Most recently, it was a government shutdown that furloughed 800,000 jobs. The new economy has brought with it new technologies that have made it one of the greatest times in modern history to consider entrepreneurship. If there’s one thing that is certain, it’s that there’s no such thing as job security.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The coming war is going to be a technology war. military ecosystem can produce and what’s possible if we engaged civilians to develop weapon systems for critical technologies. is woefully unprepared and ill-equipped for a war driven by advanced technology. This new administration can make it happen. “ Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine.

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