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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Team Fleetwise – Vehicle Fleet Management. All the presentations are worth a watch.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. the manager followed us still yelling.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. We don’t waste time building decks just meant to satisfy or convince someone. And we decisions don’t take days or months to be made. Thanks to Diego Villarreal, Banter ! 9) Endless Possibilities.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent 10 years creating and running an insurance pricing company, 10 years creating and running a popular email provider called Fastmail, and almost 10 years as a very boring corporate strategy management consultant at McKinsey. And so I started doing that with this management consulting guy. Jeremy Howard : Not much really.