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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. When I read policy papers by government organizations trying to replicate the lessons from the valley, I’m struck how they seem to miss some basic lessons. but then the government got out of the way. There are 5.7

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

Steve Blank

During World War II the United States did something its adversaries did not; it enlisted professors and graduate students as civilians in 105 colleges and universities to build advanced weapon systems — nuclear weapons, radar, etc. The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup. However, those activities are not enough.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Immigration Rules And Laws In The United States

The Startup Magazine

The United States started organizing immigration soon after it won freedom from Great Britain, and this has indicated the politics and migrant flows. The immigration law of the United States is complex, and we are going to discuss this in detail to make your concept clear regarding the same. What Is Immigration Law?

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

Steve Blank

The readings, lectures, and guest speakers explored how emerging commercial technologies pose challenges and create opportunities for the United States in strategic competition with great power rivals with an emphasis on the People’s Republic of China. We focused on the challenges created when U.S. Guest Speakers.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Cold War in Space: Top Secret Reconnaissance Satellites Revealed ” National Museum of the United States Air Force, June 02, 2015. United States Space Force ” U.S.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S. VCs and entrepreneurs can play a role in addressing the challenge by shunning known sources of adversarial capital. Team ShortCircuit. Team Catena.