Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

But an equally obvious case is BitCoin where people who live in Iran, Syria or Libya may rather put their money into non-governmental units (even knowing the risks) than to trust their local governmental leaders to protect their assets from inflation or seizure. It is the antidote to top-down control. It is open and empowering. And rebellion.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

The Office of Foreign Assets Control administers and enforces various economic sanctions programs; you may be familiar with the restrictions and embargoes that are placed on countries such as North Korea or Iran which are designed to put foreign policy pressure on those and other governments.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

I was born in Iran and I grew up there. Then in 1978, the Iranian Revolution happened, and you know, it was a religious revolution, and the folks who were associated with the Shah or the wealthy families et cetera were not safe and not welcome in Iran. I’ll start with my dad: he went back to Iran to be at his father’s deathbed.

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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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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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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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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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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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