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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. We focused on the challenges created when U.S. Guest Speakers.

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Like Their Customers, Tech Startups Will Weather the Storm

ReadWriteStart

In 2022, we saw unusual supply constraints — lingering post-coronavirus supply chain issues, a persistently tight labor market , and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — converge with high demand — partly fueled by heavy government stimulus during the first two years of the pandemic.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified.

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Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Steve Blank

Copying SecDef Ash Carter’s 2015 strategy, China has been engaged in Civil/Military Fusion employing a whole of government coordinated effort to harness these disruptive commercial technologies for its national security needs. Worse, China will learn from and apply the lessons from Russia’s failures in the Ukraine at an ever increasing pace.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. In many cases, the failures (financially, morally etc) happened because of a charismatic founder and not enough governance. Leverage your board and investors: a good board is a discussion, not a lecture.

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?????????? – Tenacity: How I Spent A Year One Night in Kiev

Steve Blank

Here’s a guest post on what happened to him in the Ukraine. Only rarely does the teaching itself require tenacity, as it did late last month in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine was magnificent. Not if I had to spend two weeks in the Ukraine applying for a new Russian visa!

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. Government. We focused on the challenges created when U.S.