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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

aquaLink started the week believing they were working to give Navy divers a system of wearable devices that records data critical to diver health and safety, and makes the data actionable through real-time alerts and post-dive analytics. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

aquaLink started the week believing they were working to give Navy divers a system of wearable devices that records data critical to diver health and safety, and makes the data actionable through real-time alerts and post-dive analytics. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

(The irony is that once you’ve gone through the lean cycle, you have all the information that goes in a business plan: customers, sales strategy, product features, and financial metrics. It’s just that they are validated instead of made up.). The Business Plan is Dead.

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The Woodstock of K-12 Education

Steve Blank

They need to learn to find answers to questions like: who are my customers, what product features match customer needs, how do I create demand and what metrics matter? They learn techniques for innovation, analytical approaches to research, and evidence-based systems for decision-making and problem-solving.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

They have to change the metrics across the entire organization. If not, then the effectiveness of the Horizon 3 effort will be graded using Horizon 1 metrics. But in the military success has different metrics. In those case revenue will become an additional metric. Now back to the class. . Team Presentations: Week 7.

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SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at.

Steve Blank

When we looked at the color graphics board market, our competitors had defined the market as one measured by technical metrics: screen resolution, number of bits of color, screen refresh rates, acceleration, etc. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ?

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign. Dave McClure, “Startup Metrics for Pirates”, [link]. Deliverable for Feb 8 th : For web teams: Get a working web site and analytics up and running. What are the key financials metrics for your business model? Get real costs from suppliers. Access to resources.

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