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

Steve Blank

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.)

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.

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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning. Who is this program for and why does it exist? The goal of the program is in the name?—?payroll payroll protection.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

Due to their unique oversight, governments have a surplus of data at their fingertips. Used properly, this available data could enable them to create beneficial programs that tackle problems in economics, policy, transportation, and civic life. Here are the facts about AI startups needing data , and how that helps governments.

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How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices

Steve Blank

It almost always starts with a Program Executive Office. Think of the PEO Directory linked below as a “Who buys in the government?” The DoD buys hundreds of billions of dollars of products and services per year, and nearly all of these purchases are managed by Program Executive Offices. How do you get their attention?

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Last year a set of specific AI apps caught everyone’s attention as AI finally crossed from the era of niche applications to the delivery of transformative and useful tools – Dall-E for creating images from text prompts, Github Copilot as a pair programming assistant, AlphaFold to calculate the shape of proteins, and ChatGPT 3.5

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this week included How the DOD Acquires Weapons Systems , The Planning, Programming and Budgeting Process , Acquisition Reform in the NDAA , Defense Primer on DOD Contractors , and on the Defense Industrial Base. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Facilitating technical release ability.