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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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. Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

With offices in Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston, Chicago and Washington, DC, this is the one DoD organization with the staffing and mandate to match commercial startups or scaleups to pressing national security problems. Integrate and create incentives for the Venture Capital/Private Equity ecosystem to invest at scale.

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