Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
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 was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. as well as in the UK and Australia.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 22, 2020
Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2019
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 31, 2017
And yet, in spite of all this, small emerging firms are largely left out of government contracting. Selling to the government is a slow process in the beginning. They dislike bureaucratic processes even more, so the government marketplace has never been an attractive option for startup firms. That may be about to change.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 17, 2020
So from my perspective, I actually think if you build a for-profit company the right way, with the right governance and the right DNA and the right structure, you can actually have an outsized impact on systems. Unfortunately, philanthropy is sort of the next source that's out there when there are gaps in what the government can provide.
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