Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 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. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Today’s topic was Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology for Modern War.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government as well as the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

government organizations who want to a more efficient way to deliver needed solutions with speed and urgency to their stakeholders. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). To get closer to his customers, Newell commissioned three mobile laboratories that were airlifted to forward operating bases.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa.

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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. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

This week the team worked to understand a day-in-the-life of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) documenting the roles of the captain, lieutenant and a private on a guard tower (slides 5 and 6). Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

This week the team worked to understand a day-in-the-life of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) documenting the roles of the captain, lieutenant and a private on a guard tower (slides 5 and 6). Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. I use the money made from my private clients to launch intelligence operations against our enemies. After two decades of being a housewife, my husband returned from Iraq disabled, sparking a radical shift in our lifestyle.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. How much is he the system of government versus the product of a system? Iran has been actively using cyber attacks and has attacked and harassed commercial shipping and Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

While the right might tell you that government regulation gets in the way of competition, it seems pretty clear that it’s lack of government regulation that is the biggest impediment. Have we forgotten that the only reason Apple even exists today is because Microsoft feared the government’s anti-trust enforcement in operating systems.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 15, 2017

In April 2009 I was invited to visit Iraq as part of the first delegation. Why do you personally believe that government is still the best system to catalyze change, versus working from the private sector? The budget for the State of Maryland is $41 billion, with a $17 billion operating budget.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 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. This is a government of the people, by the people for the people. Today General James Mattis addressed the class.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists. Are you for “bombing the s**t” out of ISIS’s oil operations and then “taking the oil” as Trump says or pulling out of NATO as Trump has threatened ? But what about Trump’s policies, Peter, do you find attractive?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The committee found that Huawei could not or would not explain its relationship with the Chinese government and did not comply with U.S. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems. Make no mistake, these are not government pronouncements that don’t end up going anywhere.

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