America, Customer Development, Engineer and Programming

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. And our course advisor, Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP.

Lean

Lean Security Asia SBIR

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding?

Programming

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. program to become an entrepreneur: …I was on my way to the Ph.D… So I started my PhD program.

Cofounder

Cofounder India Entrepreneur Maryland

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta.

Detroit

Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. At this size the program will provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. What Surprised Us? What Would We Change?

Agile

Agile Security Audio Video

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

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. National Service.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

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

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2016

I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. You can’t rely on anybody else. . In the years since, he’s been driven to succeed.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Fort Worth America Silicon Valley

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

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. National Service.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

Small Business Administration

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur

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

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps. Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. Sign up here.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Without lobbyists or PACs, were getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act - this year - to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

San Francisco

San Francisco Video DC Continuous Deployment

Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

San Francisco

San Francisco DC Washington Startup

Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. Streaming Our simulcast program has expanded to five continents (so far). More locations are being added as we can confirm them.

San Francisco

San Francisco South Africa Spain North America

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows that pushed them forward. And it’s a culture issue. .

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Carolina Cofounder Entrepreneur

Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco

San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. So much so that the NSF decided to scale the Innovation Corps program. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school.

America

America Rhode Island Southern California Illinois

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego

The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

If we showed the Toyota Production System to an Internet protocol engineer, it is likely that he would remark, "That is a tail-dropping FIFO queue. If engineers want their personal tests to get high priority, their best strategy is to add them to this large, high-priority test package. We are now four generations beyond that method."

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Six teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Team: TrackID.

Southern California

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. You can see the design of the program here.

DC

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR

The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies. Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) So for every dollar that a fund invested, it would have four dollars to invest.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS

The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco

San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. The Lean Startup Cohort program. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. The Lean Startup Cohort program. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It made the program I helped start, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) a permanent part of the nation’s science ecosystem. It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Programming

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It made the program I helped start, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) a permanent part of the nation’s science ecosystem. It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Programming

The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. No of course not.

Community

Community Management Lean Software Review

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth Moulton

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. America is full of entrepreneurs, inventor and dreamers. We need to continue that. He saw the movie, “Field of Dreams.”

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Washington Government

StartUpRoar

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Trending Sources

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

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

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

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

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

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

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Visa update

Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

The Principles of Product Development Flow

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

The cardinal sin of community management

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth Moulton

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