Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Reply Apolinaras Sinkevicius , on May 20, 2009 at 10:48 am Said: Though I had a very stable family with very good parents, I grew up in a country (Lithuania) that was occupied by Russia for 12 years of my life.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. Before long I was managing thousands of nerds in Russia, China, Germany, the U.S., It was a true leadership nightmare.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Leadership challenges. This is one of the only indicators that cannot lie about the future: Tomorrow , we will all be older than we are today! You have probably noticed by now that we are living in an increasingly V.U.C.A.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The volume of trade (excluding diamonds) between Israel and Russia in the first nine months of 2010 totalled $711 million. The magazine recognized Yanai for his leadership of Teva, as it accounts for 22% of all generic-drug sales in the United States and makes generic pharmaceuticals faster and in larger quantities than its competitors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Army, both internal ( existing leadership ) and external (existing contractors,) used these early WWW1 failures as rationale to keep the status quo – in this case horses/cavalry. But the painful lessons from nations that lost wars teach us that technology/weapons leadership is ephemeral. Slides 10-13). Guest Speaker – Max Boot.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2017

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business. In addition, I’ve always wondered why an inordinate number of successful businesses today were started by people born outside the U.S., Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

” “The engine for job creation and technology leadership begins and ends with investment in the entrepreneurial community,” adds Shaherose Charania, CEO and co-founder, Women 2.0. “Female founders are a driving force for the creation and usage of technologies that generate jobs. To date, Women 2.0

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

As our investment in Bablacar was ready to close, I again reached out to Olivier to gauge his interest in joining the BlaBlaCar team – strong leadership, significant funding and the opportunity to retain total freedom to build the service in Italy.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a 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.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Army, both internal ( existing leadership ) and external (existing contractors,) used these early WWW1 failures as rationale to keep the status quo – in this case horses/cavalry. But the painful lessons from nations that lost wars teach us that technology/weapons leadership is ephemeral. Slides 10-13). Guest Speaker – Max Boot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) My grandparents were forced from Russia. So talk a little bit about what you've seen and why you felt called to take on a leadership role. Wars have been fought. It's either leave or die.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities. She was an international facilitator and spoke all over the world from Russia to Spain to Canada and throughout the United States.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

Instead, you’re feeling your way through and you’re learning to exert leadership in a way that’s indirect or via influence. Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. They’re also improvisational and collaborative storytelling.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

political leadership with a much bigger picture. To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. How big of a nuclear warhead could they carry (throw weight and yield)? Where were their production facilities?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities. She was an international facilitator and spoke all over the world from Russia to Spain to Canada and throughout the United States.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) (That was our strategic posture from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the ’80s, and I think maybe even through the ’90s.

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Up and Running

MAY 25, 2012

When you fly back on weekends, bring some tea cups from China, or whiskey glass from Russia, depending on the alcoholic tendencies of your group. Though fiercely loyal, he is, by no means, a yes-man. He’s not afraid to question, challenge, correct and even express disappointment in the small business owner’s decision-making. Make it personal.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? With their senior leadership team, my senior leadership team, again, service acquisition representatives, and we talk about the issues. Designing in exploitability early in programs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business Tips: Document Your Business Processes [link]. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) June 17, 2018.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business Tips: Document Your Business Processes [link]. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) June 17, 2018.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I’m trying to be optimistic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2016

election cycle, the ongoing refugee crisis flowing out of the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions with Russia, and it’s no wonder the Brexit vote’s got the world like… Hold up, you might be saying. There’s talk of Scotland and Ireland seeking independence and other EU nations plotting exits of their own, as well.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. Let’s talk a bit about your leadership style and broader views on entrepreneurship. How would you describe your personal leadership style?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! At least one large group of Native Americans came from Russia (interesting new evidence) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries to offer the product would likely be France, Russia and China. Predictably, there’s also 3D navigation, an MP3 player, and functionality in 30 different languages&#. Macro News.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

One was a continuous refrain from senior DoD leadership that new tech, weapons, and operational concepts are insufficient to guarantee the U.S. Secondly, our senior military leadership recognizes that now more than ever we can’t go it alone. At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Well first, the sense of urgency you do hear at the top among the Pentagon leadership is not necessarily fully shared throughout the bureaucracy – surprise, surprise. The services need to design career paths for technologists, so that they can get rewarded, promoted, and reach leadership positions as technologists.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Russias focus, though overlapping, leans heavily toward leveraging AI for geopolitical influence, often with destabilizing intent, such as the potential for cyberattacks targeting energy grids or communication systems. Meanwhile, China asks, How can we use this to enhance governance and expand global influence?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Caught in between, social media companies try to constructively engage with both the “right” and the “left” domestically while rooting out foreign influences from antagonistic nations like Russia and Iran.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 12, 2017

Think about Donald Trump’s memorable line from one of the debates against Hillary Clinton – “I’m not the puppet, you’re the puppet” – when talking about Russia. Trash talking your competition can unwittingly expose your own weaknesses. That hasn’t turned out so well for him.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The incoming Trump administration has a historic, once-in-a-century opportunity to do something similar today and give the United States a stream of advanced capabilities and weapons that will allow the United States to deter Russia and China or — failing that — defeat them in a war. Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

My group of friends from Russia sent this to me. So it seems like there's been this mass denial in certain countries, in certain states, driven it seems like by political leadership that somehow we can avoid these hard decisions, and it will somehow work out. I've received this from three different sources."

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