Government, North Korea and Technology

Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

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.

Government

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. New emerging technologies will radically change how countries will be able to fight and deter threats across air, land, sea, space, and cyber.

Artificial Inteligence

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. We could design and manufacture the best systems.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Up until the dawn of the 21 st century, they defined military technology superiority. Our defense and intelligence community owned and/or could buy and deploy the most advanced technology in the world. Not only were they insulated from technological disruption, they were often also the disrupters. North Korea.

Silicon Valley

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Small Business Tips: Foreign Payments, The Patriot Act, OFAC, and you.

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.

Small Business

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

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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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I love technology. And I’ve watched how, in a blink of an eye, technology went from products used by the very few, to ending up in the pockets of billions, bringing social change and corporate disruption. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. Let me be honest about my bias.

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Watch Out for Seven Traits Of A Dominant Visionary

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2019

by Rob Shelton, co-author of “ The Brilliant Jerk Conundrum: Thriving with and Governing a Dominant Visionary “ Dominant visionaries that lead companies do not act or think like most people. That makes them difficult to work with, govern, or even talk to. On bad days they are jerks, troublemakers, and rabble-rousers.

North Korea

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

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.

Russia

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

Countries or people you meet sometimes don’t like our policies on a given issue, but what they almost universally admire and aspire to is American entrepreneurship, innovation, education, science and technology, and volunteerism, philanthropy. Blinken : Technology is not inherently good or inherently bad.

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The Rapture Happened but I Wasn’t Called

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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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby

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.

Russia

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The Laws Don’t – and Can’t – Keep Up With Technology

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 23, 2018

But my guess is that not much will change, the outrage will move onto something else (hey – what happened to North Korea?), Facebook will make a few incomprehensible changes to their security settings, and the laws that get created won’t keep up with the technology.

North Korea

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Can the Bitcoin code be forbidden by democratic governments?

The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2018

Prohibition of the technology. Let’s not forget that bitcoin is not a coin in itself; the Bitcoin Code is a technology, a code on people’s private computers. No democratic government will ever ban technology. By their nature, governments must protect innovation. Bitcoin in totalitarian governments.

Government

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Elections in the AI era

Start Up Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

We understand its potential, we anticipate its use, yet governments appear largely indifferent to its probable role in election campaigns. Historically, election interference has been a costly and challenging endeavour, typically orchestrated by rogue states like Russia, China, and North Korea.

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