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.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

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. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. National Service.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

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. At this size the program will provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. What Did We Learn From the Class?

Agile 120

Agile Security Audio Video 120

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? That's why it's America's number one meal kit. Go to DeskTeam360 info and book your call today. (09:06):

Social Media 77

Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 77

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. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. National Service.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 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. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. What They Do: Deeply discounted coupons (often 50% off redeemed value) for local merchants. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 22, 2018

Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential. If you are in charge of an innovation program or initiative — do training first. Training Accelerates Innovation.

Framework 55

Framework Agile Lean America 55

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. Image Credit: Anna Renault.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And we launched Message From America with Sony, where you could come in and tape a DVD and send it to your soldier or sailor or marine that was being deployed. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Without lobbyists or PACs, were getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act - this year - to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

San Francisco 143

San Francisco Video DC Continuous Deployment 143

Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2019

21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck Report On Friday, July 19th a group of 77 ambitious developers, designers and entrepreneurs gathered at Capital Factory to participate in the Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) Hackathon. This year Daimler is back with a new problem at hand.

North America 53

North America Technology Texas America 53

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. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco DC Washington Startup 113

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002. then we integrate loyalty programs, CRM, etc., to personalize and enrich the experience.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). More locations are being added as we can confirm them.

San Francisco 97

San Francisco South Africa Spain North America 97

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

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? Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

San Francisco 107

San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa 107

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. We’re using modern programming languages. Image via Wikipedia. I put on hold millions of dollars of IT spend that were underway. We’re making some really good progress on upgrading patents.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Team New Zealand designed the yacht that won the Americas Cup.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This means that students need skills that allow them to be agile, resilient, and cross functional. The University, with 2600 undergrads and 500 graduate students, started out in 1884 as the center of formal education for America’s textile workers and managers. It’s hard to reconfigure academic programs. Lessons Learned.

Philadelphia 320

Philadelphia Agile United States Engineer 320

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. How Should the DoD Realign its Concepts, Culture, Programs and Budgets? And so there’s a huge human capital effort to be done here to raise the overall tech literacy of all of the folks- from the program managers to the operators.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. They’d run around saying, “Hey look, I can program this chip to make this speaker go beep.”

Minnesota 335

Minnesota Silicon Valley America Engineer 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 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: TrackID.

Southern California 163

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. I'll add one more point: The SBIR program is based on a dated notion of small business research, and the multi-year process doesn't line up with the speed of many modern startups. You can see the design of the program here.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. They’d run around saying, “Hey look, I can program this chip to make this speaker go beep.”

Minnesota 227

Minnesota Silicon Valley America Engineer 227

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. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0. Come celebrate with us at this joint program organized by BayBrazil, GABA, and SVForum Tech Women. Startup Weekend. Workshops. -->. Recent Posts. At SXSW Interactive In Austin This Week! For International Women’s Day, Give To Girls Around The World.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

by Will Koffel , head of the Google Cloud Startup Program in the Americas. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Will Koffel leads the Google Cloud Startup Program in the Americas.

Management 138

Management Product SCRUM Early Stage 138

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

So Corporate America has a dogs vs. cats problem — or perhaps a “Mars vs. Venus” problem is more appropriate. A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. And mutual disdain and squabbling prevent the collaboration needed to thrive in a tough global economy.

Algorithm 174

Algorithm Analytics Social Media Metrics 174

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. Bank of America everything. What marketing program in the universe does not need that? Having one-trick ponies can limit your capacity to think smart and move fast. What are you doing to earn, and keep, attention? #5 United breaks guitars. Those are big ones.

Marketing 140

Marketing Analytics Web Channel 140

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But the American Nation can never forget him, because he has succeeded to shatter economical structure of America to the lowest ebb; he has made USA standing with clutches of even the minorities; he has assured them that he had already produced Osamas with different forms and shapes just like me : osamawithpen.

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. You can literally make a difference with as little as a tweet, by using 2gov at [link]. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

San Francisco 121

San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. The Lean Startup Cohort program. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. The Lean Startup Cohort program. So my priorities for 2010 are projects that will expand the lean startup industry-wide.

San Francisco 122

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 122

ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

He teamed up with a number of Greek organizations, associations and institutions, including CoLab Athens (Greece’s first co-working space), which offers workshops and accelerator programs to startups. Given those kinds of attitudes, it’s hard to argue with Whitehill’s contention that “it’s relatively easy in America to start a business.”.

Saudi Arabia 150

Saudi Arabia Greece Belgium Egypt 150