Steve Blank

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). could design and produce. In World War II the U.S.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.)

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

From 2002-08 Sec. Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Jessica Mah , founder of InDinero and Peg Burke , founder of 1185 Design. During the first term of the Obama Administration, he was Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. Blinken was Democratic Staff Director for the U.S.