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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 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. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 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. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. He runs H4X Labs.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy. 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.

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Lessons for the DoD ā€“ From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Another startup is providing a resilient, mesh local area network for secure tactical communications supporting ground units. that can make 1,000’s of extremely low cost, attritable systems – “ the small, the agile and the many.” To do so he started the Defense Innovation Unit ( DIU). ” Acquire at Speed.

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