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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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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. Does any of this match your experience or people you know? I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups.

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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. Separately, I am a former lawyer, and building a business from scratch has its unique rewards that a career in law, although potentially lucrative, could not possibly hope to match. 9) Endless Possibilities.