Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to diplomacy and national security in the 21 st century.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 162

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to diplomacy and national security in the 21 st century.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital businesses need to be agile and reactive too. Whether you are running a solo operation or you have a team of dedicated individuals set to help you get your business off the ground, it is important to clarify this during the planning stage, so you know exactly what you have to work with. List who’s on your team and why.

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eCommerce Business Plan Audience Lean 96

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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. The Lean Startup.”. Agile Methodology.”. In the chase to produce the best minimum viable product or to push out the next killer feature, security is often given the backseat. Security, efficiently. Fail Fast, Pivot.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. So we need to find solutions that operate at the systems level to break teams out of this pincer action.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects after this class. 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. This post is a continuation of the series.

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Board Effect

APRIL 5, 2021

In the interest of stewardship and gaining the public’s trust, it’s common for nonprofits to maintain a fairly lean budget and keep a good eye on the organization’s finances. For some boards, keeping a lean budget means doing more work so they can spend less. The tools most boards are using lack the proper security for compliance.

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Cloud Lean Security Technology 64

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To survive in a crowded marketplace, businesses had to pool their resources, so they could operate more efficiently and capture more of the market share. Secure the right investment. We price competitively, and we keep our operations as lean as possible. I prefer to keep the ship steady. Funding rounds are exhausting.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Today, our DoD and national security agencies are running as hard as they can just to stay in place, but our adversaries are continually innovating faster than our traditional systems can respond.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Board Effect

APRIL 14, 2021

Board members are insistent on avoiding risks and operating too leanly to be successful as a result. Invest in a board management system like BoardEffect to store your important documents, create board books, manage your board cycles, share files securely, enhance communication, and much more. Long-term sustainability is achievable.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks. Are You Single?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It seemed to make sense to have have all the parties represented at the committee, so lots of people attended – program managers who controlled the budget, the developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing the current product and building new ones, and representatives from the operating divisions who needed and would use these products.

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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. The output of these classes is providing hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. — Why This Course?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. I remember answering "What security model?"

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says. The question is why?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. why didnt operations get paged? How do you get started with five whys?

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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works! “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Communication and decision-making occupy the minimum possible time. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’m a big believer of lean startup. As an e-commerce entrepreneur, this quote resonates with me greatly and it is has guided many aspects of my business operations, especially the user experience design of my website. Blakely was able to secure a meeting with Neiman Marcus for an unknown product, then soon followed her success.

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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. (Our

Southern California 168

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 168

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Their sponsors agreed. This is the End.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

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 why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Fast forward 20 years, 3 kids and a roller coaster journey – I look back knowing that having to reinvent myself over and over has taught me skills about emotional and sales agility. Also, it was rather an operational than a technological business. Thanks to Louise Taylor, Unbridled Pty Ltd ! #14- 14- For faster and more control.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. I am not just a Finance or a Marketing employee: as an entrepreneur, I have a full understanding of my business’ dynamics, both strategic and operational. Do we worry about job security?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. No company survives solely based on its marketing, its technology, its operations, or any other factor. Story can create legends that an entire workplace culture can build upon, grow with, and lean on.

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