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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes. However, the designer is a non-scaleable service; you’ll have to hire more people like her as your portfolio grows. . Customer Development. Is the service scaleable? Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. TechStars and Startup America are partnering to provide mentors in the U.S. agile engineering. Find it here. Sign up here.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries. Presentation Format. Team: Panacea.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 37: Michael Ingle and Graeme Gordon

Steve Blank

I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. Before founding Clean Sleep , he worked for Boeing as a teenager, did mechanical drafting and design for a combustion engineering company, ran a beach volleyball bar with friends and founded Quick Set Concrete. Then I realized, “Okay, this is a perfect franchise model.”

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

This means developing new and innovative ways to think about, organize and build diplomatic strategies and solutions. Hacking for Diplomacy is designed to provide students the opportunity to learn how to work with the Department of State to address urgent foreign policy challenges. National Service.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems. They can crowd-source designs, find components through eBay, fund through PayPal, train using virtual worlds and refine tactics, techniques and procedures using massive on-line gaming. Sign up here.