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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

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. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies. Stay tuned.

Lean

Lean Security Asia SBIR

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They co-founded it with former U.S.

New Jersey

New Jersey Government CTO America

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Support U.S.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Support U.S.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Team: Panacea.

Oakland

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Angels In America. Here’s how.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Agile

Agile Security Audio Video

Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Angels In America. Here’s how.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet

18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. I worked for the US Army as a civilian employee classified as a computer engineer. It’s usually a process.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media

The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review

Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

San Francisco

San Francisco DC Washington Startup

What's Wrong With Today's Board Meetings: Part 1

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Angels In America.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage

Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Iran

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

DC

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. Today, if college students want to give back to their country, most think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps if you wanted to offer your technical skills, the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Office of Assistance to the Near East.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers. But we’re America, we know how to do this.

Technology

Technology China United States Government

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Team: TrackID.

Southern California

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. Today, if college students want to give back to their country, most think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps if you wanted to offer your technical skills, the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Office of Assistance to the Near East.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

Java

Java PHP Software Review Coder

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The bill directs the expansion of I-Corps to additional federal agencies and academic institutions, as well as through state and local governments.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Programming

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The bill directs the expansion of I-Corps to additional federal agencies and academic institutions, as well as through state and local governments.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Programming

The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. In a history of totalitarian governments, there's one common thing. It is a stage that must be outgrown. It's all about respect.

Community

Community Management Lean Software Review

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

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Innovation – something both parties can agree on

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