Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. You can move at exponential speed.

Government 196

Government CTO Hire Technical Review Salary 196

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. It provides governance and financial oversight to the company.

Government 241

Government Advisory Board Salary Sales Cycle 241

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

Amidst the outbreak, governments across the region, such as Singapore have been promoting the use of digital finance as a means to minimise physical contact and stamp the spread of the virus, channelling more monetary support for the growth of e-payments and digital financial solutions.

Asia 290

Asia Technical Review Technology Singapore 290

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence has been the technology right around the corner for at least 50 years. One of the problems about disruptive technology is that disruption doesn’t come with a memo. Others look at the same technology and recognize at that instant the world will no longer be the same (e.g. This year we’ve invented one more.

ChatGPT 424

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property API 424

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the 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.

Artificial Inteligence 291

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 291

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Now they are partners.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review South Korea San Francisco Software Review 417

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Of course it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business. If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business startup experience. Commercialization requires infrastructure.

Technical Review 391

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 391

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. Just as a reminder, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and distinct markets: Quantum Computing , Quantum Communications and Quantum Sensing and Metrology. have different error rates and causes of errors unique to the underlying technology.

Technical Review 267

Technical Review Illinois Algorithm Software Review 267

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

To stay competitive in our digital world, small and medium-sized businesses need to be equipped with and proficient in the latest technologies. In his new book, “Tech Debt 2.0 : How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line” , senior global business and technology executive Michael C. Tech Debt 2.0

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Small Business Software Review Security 246

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

Artificial Inteligence 160

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 160

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. People with ideas, technology or problems pitched in front of the evaluation committee. There’s a much better way.

Incubator 319

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 319

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action. The most valuable organizations are able to govern their work environment through innovation, to cope with the increasing pace of change in culture and the marketplace. Stable and friendly work environment.

Technical Review 323

Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

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. Stay tuned. Team AngelComms – Rescuing Downed Pilots. He runs H4X Labs.

Lean 417

Lean Security Asia SBIR 417

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the consequences of premature government regulation of AI and why the incumbents are all for it. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. In the U.S. Bill Gurley’s point.)

Washington 319

Washington Government Marketing Silicon Valley 319

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action. The most valuable organizations are able to govern their work environment through innovation, to cope with the increasing pace of change in culture and the marketplace. Stable and friendly work environment.

Valuation 311

Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2018

By engineering a decentralized network that builds a consensus from the data of all the physical IoT devices and technology that currently surround us, the company has created a location tracking system that is incredibly precise and secure. signed Babe Ruth baseball, or that $118,600 Lladro chandelier. The problem is GPS.

Networking 279

Networking Technical Review eCommerce Software Review 279

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation. For example, the Segway personal vehicle was proven technology 15 years ago, but is still constrained by right-of-way laws, liability issues, and charging stations.

Technical Review 434

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 434

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

Intellectual Property 341

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 341

Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. In the last decade, technology investors realized that these professional CEOs were effective at maximizing, but not finding, product cycles.

Part-Time VPE 329

Part-Time VPE Liquidity Event Stock Engineer 329

Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review. to stifle competition.).

Startup 306

Startup New York City Valuation Distribution 306

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

Finance 320

Finance Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 320

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

Technical Review 252

Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Metrics 252

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g., New goldmine of innovations and technology. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. If you as an entrepreneur are not “listening” to your online reviews, and not moving quickly to make changes, you are losing ground.

Agile 379

Agile Technical Review Leadership Social Media 379

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Dual-Use Technology As the war was winding down, the leadership of the Navy Computing Machine Lab in OPS-20-G was thinking about how they could permanently link commercial, academic and military computing science and innovation to the Navy. Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry.

Minnesota 317

Minnesota Engineer Minneapolis Silicon Valley 317

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

The Serbian government is now looking to capitalize on this by launching a new initiative that will allow citizens to trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Serbian government is hoping that the launch of NFT trading will help the country attract more foreign investment. For more information you should check NFT code.

Serbia 157

Serbia Technical Review Government Software Review 157

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. It assumes that car companies will do a good job self-certifying these new technologies. How do you measure and test these systems? What’s the role of regulators in doing so?

Technical Review 300

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 300

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. I continue to be amazed that some government agency reportedly still gets 100 calls per day from victims of the Nigerian unclaimed cash scam alone. Cash transfer assistance funding. People who fall for this one must be really greedy.

Technical Review 371

Technical Review Due Diligence Non-disclosure Agreement Term Sheet 371

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2020

With this technology, the phone will never ring even as the pre-recorded audio messages are being delivered to multiple voicemail boxes at the same time. This means that this technology can be used across multiple industries for various purposes. This technology is mostly used for customer outreach.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Software Review Campaign Technical Support 246

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. The approval process is long and bureaucratic.

Early Stage 225

Early Stage SBIR Technical Review Seed Stage 225

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. When I was a kid, this was science fiction. In the U.S.

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

I’m convinced that you can learn more from failure than success, so it pays to take these as lessons to improve your success odds before you start: Creating a new technology doesn’t make a business. Despite the technology, the fears of pedestrians and government regulations strangled the business.

Angel Investor 249

Angel Investor Cofounder Finance Operations 249

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Nations decline when they lose allies, decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century); a nations military can miss disruptive technology transitions and new operational concepts. See all the class sessions here.)

Technology 418

Technology Russia China Intellectual Property 418

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. How to bring together technology, government, and communities to combat violent extremist messaging.

Lean 282

Lean Saudi Arabia Austria Silicon Valley 282

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Shortly after this event Bitcoin became more widely known through technology blogs like Slashdot and Reddit, but struggled to gain widespread public attention until 2011. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer transactions, mining, and other technological feats to operate without central authority or banks, unlike government-issued currencies.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review Software Review Florida Government 146