Steve Blank

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015, the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) of the company.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats. If you can’t see the Silknet 2-minute video, click here.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team: Embargo NK. If you can’t see the EmbargoNK 2-minute video click here.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. The class is now taught in 81 universities and has trained over 1500 science teams.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps. 2015 Instructors : Jeff Epstein, Steve Weinstein. Lead TA : Rick Barber, TA : Stephanie Glass. 2014 Instructors : Jeff Epstein, Jim Hornthal.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major disruptor and potentially change the balance of military power. Until recently, the hype exceeded reality.