Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Today there is a national network of 40 colleges and universities teaching Hacking for Defense. We’ve created a network of entrepreneurial students who understand the security threats facing the country and engaged them in partnership with islands of innovation in the DOD/IC.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners. Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Mark has been at the forefront of providing job stability and funding for his own employees and the networks that support them during the pandemic. Create local network effects and then go from there. We were one of the very first local area network and wide area network integrators. during S&L crisis. (36:43)

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

Apart from being one of the best events from a production point of view (lots of attention to detail from communication to infrastructure and design) it was an opportunity to learn, network and get inspired.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2022

The unspeakable violence and aggression that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine and its people is the first all out “hot war” invasion in Europe since WWII. Since its debut in 2009, Bitcoin has been heralded as a self-sovereign alternative to government controlled fiat. Bitcoin becomes the compelling “risk off” asset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Gust

JANUARY 6, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

You communicate, interact and network with each other in a way that’s unique in the history of our species. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. — The next wave was Radio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past few years just about every country with a high-speed network and a national budget has hatched a “startup ecosystem.” Russia, Belarus, England, Greece and South Africa. None has succeeded. “Our Enterprise Ireland has a fund of €10 million to dole out. Ireland Can Help With Going Global.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I think the real long pole in the tent is in developing new operational concepts, in light of a clear-eyed assessment of what we’re going to face from either China or for example Russia’s A2/AD network in Europe. You’ve got a resident power with a huge set network of capabilities. We like to be the one to beat.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Just as the printing press upended the religious and political structures of early modern Europe, AI has the potential to reshape economies, governance, and international relations. The precise timing information GPS provides is used to synchronize clocks in telecom networks, in ways that help keep mobile phone calls clear and lag-free.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2018

No democratic government will ever ban technology. By their nature, governments must protect innovation. In the long run, a healthy strategy for a government is to encourage innovation, including the use of cryptocurrency. It is a minor example, but it is important for both governments and companies.

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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

Conservatives counter that these same social platforms are silencing conservative voices and call for government regulation to ensure that their opinions are heard. During the past few years, significant political manipulation by foreign operatives occurred in smaller networks like 4Chan as well.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2023

If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on with regards to the future of TikTok in the United States, it is that congressional leaders have embarrassed themselves during the questioning of TikTok’s US CEO as the government considers whether or not to ban the popular app. From questions like, “Does TikTok access my home wifi network?”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s Russian AI Strategy.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I feel confident that money was his motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia. I feel confident that money was his [Trump] motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia. But the U.S. Very, very few people cared about it or learned how to do it.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The only solution is to outsource advanced weapons systems development outside of the traditional services and government ecosystem and hand the development to civilians.” As a result, we believe the U.S. is woefully unprepared and ill-equipped for a war driven by advanced technology. Vannevar Bush to President Roosevelt in 1940 Insane?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Generally the rights of citizens are protected by The Constitution and by the government.” “I

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