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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. as well as in the UK and Australia. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility. There are the traditional partners, like Australia and New Zealand and the Philippines. Should the Joint Staff have a structure for the acquisition of capabilities, making sure it matches the modernization of our operational concepts? Alliances matter.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) Expo SF (May.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Its the same with acquisitions. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives. Expo SF (May.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. If you find yourself in this kind of situation, what can you do? Great post! You do a great job articulating.

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Why our small businesses are a BIG deal

NZ Entrepreneur

While we often hear statistics asserting New Zealand as a nation of small businesses, such as 97% of businesses in New Zealand having less than 20 employees (which is the current definition of a small business in New Zealand and Australia), these numbers are not the reason why small businesses are important in and of themselves.