Interviews

Steve Blank on Public Service and Defining the Root of the Problem

But in reality, problems like climate are inherently complex, made by multiple players. And if you dig deep enough, you actually could find that maybe this one piece or these several pieces could be the linchpins of making major changes, rather than trying to raise tens of billions of dollars just doing X or Y.

Language Between Host and Hosted

The fourth is more frequent with second generation immigrants and it’s marginalization. They feel “neither fish nor fowl,” so they don’t have many contacts with people of the mother culture, or with people of the host culture, because somehow they feel rejected in both. This is a more problematic situation, because these people have a sort of “emptiness of meaning”: they don’t know where they belong.      

Steve Blank on Making Meaningful Research Matter in the Marketplace

There's a huge gap between the academics and the practitioners. I think some smart university is going to start a translational entrepreneurship group, working not only on translating their academic research, but maybe going through some of the best papers and pulling out useful things for practitioners.

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