Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. So what’s at the core of the problem for national security organizations? Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. that innovated.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. They want to open new offices, generate more revenue, and ultimately, secure higher profitability. . Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. Memorability. Or is it? .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We just held our twelfth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Space had long been part of the Air Force and the thought was, we really need to elevate space to a level commensurate with its importance to national security. And it’s more than just the digital engineering of the thing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2023

Ukraine’s military is not burdened with the DoD’s 65-year-old acquisition process and 20th-century operational concepts. Today, private capital is disincented to participate in national security and incentives are aligned to ensure the U.S. Reorganize DoD Research and Engineering. Reorganize DoD Acquisition and Sustainment.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Using cost-per-acquisition bidding on Google ads, they’ve had a significant increase in new donors. AI systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks because they contain massive amounts of data, and boards should consider the strength of AI systems security. New donors now constitute a fourth of their total YouTube donation revenue.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Of course, these are important ingredients to growth, but the – perhaps unconventional – truth is that this kind of growth can be riskier and less compelling to investors than growth through acquisition. A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. Structuring the Desired Deal.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

It is highly secure. also lets you chart your product roadmaps by setting a product strategy, collaborating with the product and engineering teams, and creating visual roadmaps. It lets you clearly identify which activities are the main contributors to your acquisition goals. It is flexible, scalable, and extremely reliable.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

They should also invest in marketing and user acquisition to increase the network effect. Israeli startup Checkmarx , which provides software security solutions, is an excellent example of a company that fulfills this trait.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I simply needed to ignore the perfection impulse and focus on the business engines that were really important. When I say business engines, I mean components that keep a machine working. So instead of focusing on the designs and themes (the aesthetic), I should have focused on the sales engines (ways to improve my sales funnels).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most products are built by engineers and product people, and they are often uncomfortable cold calling customers to get meetings for early feedback. Securing pre-orders is another way to validate your product and ensure a strong start. They then “dialed for dollars” to secure 100 commitments beyond the estimated need.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

The speed, depth and breadth of these disruptive changes happen faster than the responsiveness and agility of our current acquisition systems and defense-industrial base. Even today, the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine rapidly delivers weapons. They rarely make permanent change at the DoD.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They will provide strategic technical guidance and direction with attention to scalability, security, quality, maintainability, and reliability. They will draw from their expert perspective and are capable of applying a broader spectrum of experience across many technologies as they help you plan your engineering process and culture.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Done right, ASO can reduce user acquisition costs, increase app downloads, and improve your app’s value. But ASO, like search engine optimization, fails when worshipped like a false god. Lowering your customer acquisition costs (CAC). If so, why, and how do they measure security? Is feeling safe a priority?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. So, it’s incumbent on us to think about the ramifications of these acquisition decisions. Today’s topic was Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology for Modern War.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

2/ Cyber-security Is Red-Hot: Earlier this year, Cisco acquired Duo for $2.2B The overall surface-area for what security companies can target seems to be growing 100-fold alongside the size of the threats. and Thoma Bravo took over Veracode for $950M. AutoDesk Acquires PlanGrid For $875M.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Selling to a Fortune 500 company will likely involve engaging multiple stakeholders and adhering to compliance and security complexities. For example, data connectivity platform LiveRamp used ABM to secure meetings with 15 high-profile clients. Secure executive buy-in by communicating the financial value of ABM.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The National Defense Strategy is the military’s “here’s what we’re going to do,” to implement the executive branch’s National Security Strategy. This document tells our military – the Department of Defense – what kind of adversaries they should plan to face and how they should plan to use our armed forces. Defense Department is worth a read.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. Here’s Proquo’s lead generation landing page: By doing this, they’re able to progress prospects through the funnel more quickly, reducing cost per acquisition. This involves securing a placement in newsletters with a focused audience.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Team: Panacea.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). Yossarian Lives is a search engine that can make lateral connections, like humans can, to aid creativity. Cyber Security. A service for the insatiably curious. Is anyone doing this?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. Loyalty experts add social media to their programs in the same way that 19 th century engineers added combustion engines to their existing carriages. Automobiles started out looking exactly like old-style carriages, but without the horse.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. That will take a long time to settle. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Two months later they secured five new deals each worth five times more than customers they were struggling to close before, and won a new investment round. With Opsfleet, the situation was critical as they provide a commodity service (software development) and have signifcant competition. Engagement scoring is critical.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The very top yellow bar: “The improved trading engine is released. Okay, let’s hit “Register”: Another security measure. It gives me various security options to set up. Don’t focus only on acquisition. It still doesn’t tell the whole story (you can trade cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin), but it’s much better.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Spend some time forming campaigns that include the use of television ads, magazines, the search engine optimization and many others. Securing your online casino. It is expected that any starting venture encounters problems and in the online space this takes the form of security. Draft your market plan and our target market.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects after this class. At this size the program will provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21 st century.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. A slow site means a poor user experience, and search engines will respond accordingly. With a good SRT—and a site optimized for speed—your website will appear to load almost instantly. Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

My goal is to get them excited about creating an amazing digital acquisition strategy that delivers noteworthy experiences through their owned digital platforms, and which ultimately delivers bigger profits (usually offline, but online as well). What is the role of Search Engines in the purchase process? But there you have it.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. So, it’s incumbent on us to think about the ramifications of these acquisition decisions. Today’s topic was Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology for Modern War.

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