www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I Lipinski was responsible for helping I-Corps proliferate through the federal government. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Importantly the Irish government and local businesses roll out the red carpet to make sure everybody visiting leaves with a strong appreciation of the economic benefits for US startups in locating their European headquarters in Ireland vs. all of the other Continental options available.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan. Filed under: Hacking For Defense.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In Washington DC you have government & defense. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. You also have the headquarters of many of the countries largest companies.

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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

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Getting students to have a healthy appreciation for how government policy is made — sometimes painfully slowly — is part of the educational process.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2013

Afterwards, the government and their legal enforcement bureaus. She is based in San Diego, California. If and when they do catch your hand in the cookie jar (or in darker, much dirtier places), they can mobilize the gestalt conscience of the worldwide online community to bombard you with internet flames and guilt.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer. (This post is a continuation of the series. See all the H4D posts here. Because of the embedded presentations this post is best viewed on the website.).

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Similarly, when a San Diego government employee offered to photograph a friend’s wedding, he didn’t know it would lead to an extra $3,500 every month. He also didn’t know that several years later those same reviews would still be earning him an average of $700 a month, without any further work on his part.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Getting students to have a healthy appreciation for how government policy is made — sometimes painfully slowly — is part of the educational process.

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Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

Board Effect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Collaboration and partnerships: Events bring people from various sectors together and they may provide opportunities for board members to explore partnerships with other organizations, government agencies, or businesses that align with their mission and goals. Collaboration may ultimately amplify impact.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Mike Hrostoski launched The Conference For Men , a weekend of accelerated personal growth for 300 inspiring men in San Diego on April 25-27. Sonia provides writing and editing services to mid-sized nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses with a social good focus.

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

Some of the survey’s key findings include: Texas had three of the top five cities ( Austin , Houston and San Antonio ), while California was home to three of the bottom five ( Los Angeles , San Diego and Sacramento ). Newark, NJ finished last in this year’s rankings.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. Thanks to Alice Maples, Recess Everyday LLC !

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I remember even just, I grew up in San Diego, so not nearly as far as Turkey and yet, even for me, the first time that I drove around Silicon Valley and saw the headquarters of all the companies that I had had all these relationships with as a customer, as a developer, it was a profound thing. ER : What was it like the first time?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? This is the next frontier for government to explore: how can leaders bridge the remaining interpersonal distances that separate people in social networks? Hwang: What we think of as free markets are actually not that free. Q: What parts of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government. They’re finding that the government doesn’t want to pay for launch and sustainment, but instead would rather be users of commercial data. Hacking for Defense Goes National.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

Capella Space is pivoting towards commercial customers based on consistent feedback from the government. They’re finding that the government doesn’t want to pay for launch and sustainment, but instead would rather be users of commercial data. Hacking for Defense Goes National.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I got back to my little village and there was the indigenous government office about two miles away. Turns out) Grace, my co-founder, was at a bar in San Diego (and) convinced the bouncer … to make every single person vote on their phones for Watsi before they entered the bar. …We We ended up winning the competition.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

government commercializes science. It was) General Dynamics in San Diego, a big defense contractor and the guy that we were meeting, he had a huge table sitting on an elevated platform and we could see him from outside but he would not usher us in. Part 2, this post is my interview with Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I mean I grew up in San Diego California as a middle-class white American. They never boasted or bragged or said we defeated the darkness and it's over. They always said to me and my sisters: beware the signs, know your history, be ready. I thought they were paranoid. The list goes on.

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