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For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event – the day a Cryptographically Relevant Qua...
This is the 16th year we’ve been teaching the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. This year, from the first hour of the first class, we realized...
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superio...
The Department of War is in the midst of the most ambitious acquisition reform in 60 years. It’s just in time as drone and missile warfare l...
If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, bui...
A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new event creates a wake-up call that makes founding engineers reevaluate their j...
When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it...
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32
Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened. And then you consider ho...
The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is he...
In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and services. This month...
The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed by Steve Blank
I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing tactics on how to make...
The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2. The Department of War (DoW) is one of the world’s largest organizations. If you’re a startup tryi...
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is...
Great founders shine in a crisis.
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory by Steve Blank
How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fi...
I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they h...
We just finished the 15th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in bo...
We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 70 universities, has teams...
International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it. This is w...
US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innova...
The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in Wor...
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown...
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons...
Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers.
Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedu...
It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup.
Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, re...
I started working when I was 14 (I lied about my age) and counting four years in the Air Force I’ve worked in 12 jobs. I left each one of th...
Entrepreneurs tend to view adversity as opportunity.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost...
When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies, a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” It...
We Sleep Peaceably In Our Beds At Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready To Do Violence On Our Behalf. Everyone has events that shape the...
In 2023 China flying a “spy balloon” over the U.S. created an international incident. It turns out the U.S. did the same to the Soviet Union...
Reducing Risk – Simulation versus Customer Development If you remember the first part of this discussion, startups face two types of risk; i...
I’ve screwed up a lot of startups on faith. One of the key tenets of entrepreneurship is that you start your company with insufficient resou...
I wrote this “Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters” memo as a board member after I saw our company at a trade show. Part 1 of this post offe...
I was having lunch with a friend who is a retired venture capitalist and we drifted into a discussion of the startups she funded. We agreed...
One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. “Steve,” he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of...
In the past entrepreneurship was viewed (and taught) as a single process, with a single approach to creating a business plan and securing fu...
Ignore This Post If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post. If you’re in...
It was 1978. Here I was, a very junior employee of ESL, a company with its hands in the heart of our Cold War strategy. Clueless about the c...
1978. Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working fo...
I love business plan competitions. I hate business plan competitions.
I just finished reading Donovan Campbell’s eye-opening book, “Joker One“, about his harrowing combat tour in Iraq leading a Marine platoon....
I was visiting a friend whose company teaches executives how to communicate effectively. He had just filmed the second of a series of videos...
This article in the NY Times about China’s thinking strategically about electric cars was a poignant contrast to our struggles in the U.S. w...
I saw an article in the New York Times about Google’s hiring practices that reminded me of the differences between great big successful tech...
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