Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. of Management Science and Engineering.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Video of the teams live presentation are here. Worth your time to watch.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

felt that it was the victim of a strategic technological surprise. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. We wrote a program managers guide to help leaders inside government organizations use the class to speed up their problem solving process.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

And that the Lean Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption and create continuous innovation for large commercial organizations were equally relevant here. For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) This post offers a few days’ worth of thinking about what I saw.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

felt that it was the victim of a strategic technological surprise. DARPA was founded in 1958 to ensure that from then on the United States would be the initiator of technological surprises. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. Buy these sandals and we'll contribute money to building schools in Afghanistan for girls who otherwise couldn't go to school. There's a product manager at 3M that knows the N95 mask business inside and out, domestically and globally. You can't fall back. MC : Yeah, it's crazy.

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JUNE 15, 2020

We see that at every level across the organization today, Eric Ries : It's almost like some of those other top-down command and control management structures maybe aren't needed. Frank Barbieri : Completely. Ryan Sarver : Yeah. Eric, we talk a lot about Stanley McChrystal's book, Team of Teams. Eric Ries : Those are two pretty great bookends.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology. We were imagining that this would be for either.We

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