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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. Team Neurosmart – Optimizing Performance of Special Operators. Team Salus – Patching Operational Systems to Keep them Secure. Stay tuned.

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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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. What does SBIR Phase I mean, exactly? At Spark Collider, there were 100 companies present that received an initial award from the Department of Defense (DoD)— which denotes them as Phase 1 SBIR Awardees.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

that can make 1,000’s of extremely low cost, attritable systems – “ the small, the agile and the many.” DoD needs a requirements, budgeting and acquisition process that operates at commercial speed (18 months or less) which is 10x faster than DoD procurement cycles. (One ” Acquire at Speed.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a 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. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

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. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation in 2012 to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.)