Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We just held our third 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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JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. 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. But the thing that really caught my attention: his Stanford Ph.D In 2012, Rep.

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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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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

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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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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. 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).

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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

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

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. Listen to my entire chat with Matt.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts.

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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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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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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The team validated several critical hypotheses about technology and acquisition (slide 2), further refined their Minimum Viable Product (slide 3) and really dug into the path of getting a solution acquired and deployed in the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in slides 4 – 9. They mapped how to get a product deployed in JIDA in slide 9.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The team validated several critical hypotheses about technology and acquisition (slide 2), further refined their Minimum Viable Product (slide 3) and really dug into the path of getting a solution acquired and deployed in the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in slides 4 – 9. They mapped how to get a product deployed in JIDA in slide 9.

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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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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. 18 years have passed and lots of things have changed, thus my most important goal these days is to keep up with the technology regarding the internet. Ethics and morality were only measured against regulations. I traversed the medical

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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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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

His way of leading is a great example of how people should lead whatever organization they're in – government or business. I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bush: “You have a moral obligation to act against evil.” : Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s words to the 43rd president deeply affected his decision to intervene in Iraq, one of the defining acts of his political career. His hope of instilling a lifelong interest in government in the young Ted worked.

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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. I’m an investor.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 15, 2017

One effort under that umbrella was their Tech Delegation trips, which sent groups of technology executives to foreign countries for week-long working sessions. In April 2009 I was invited to visit Iraq as part of the first delegation. It was an amazing experience for me and I’ve been close with Alec since that point.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We just had our second 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). Next week – Russia.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. He offered context for the government’s innovation efforts: The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

defense and consumer electronics industries will be set back at least five years — and because China has its own advanced chip foundries, it could become the world leader in technology for the next decade or more. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems. Without them, the U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 29, 2017

The photo-op is lined with young men without explaining that it was market forces and technology, not actually EPA regulations, that are ending coal jobs and the promise implied to a future coal-dependent workforce. Smith’s loyalist climate change deniers and senior scientists in the US Government. That does not sit well with me.

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