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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

How would customer interviews work via video? After teaching remotely for the last year, we’ve learned that customer discovery is actually more efficient using video conferencing. For the final Lessons Learned presentation many of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. I reached what I then thought was the pinnacle of my career when I raised tens of millions of dollars and became CEO of my seventh startup… a hot new video game company. I was always learning. Life was perfect.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

If you can’t see the video of Palmer Luckey click here. Each of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem. If you can’t see the Panacea 2-minute video click here. If you can’t see the video of the Panacea team presenting click here. Presentation Format. Team: Panacea.

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. The presentations below are their final Lessons Learned presentations, along with a 2-minute video summary. If you can’t see the video click here. SalesStash. Exit Strategy.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

Launched in 2011, the Lean LaunchPad capstone entrepreneurship class was unique in that it was: team-based. Third, the tools for customer discovery (videos, sample experiments, etc.) Instead of lecturing about the basics during class time, we assign the core lectures, recorded as video clips, as homework. experiential.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.