crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Please tell us about yourself.

Bosnia 97

Bosnia Herzegovina Architecture Serbia 97

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Building off last spring’s pioneering Hacking for Defense class, which sought to connect Silicon Valley’s innovation culture and mindset to the Pentagon and the intelligence community, we’ve now expanded our horizons to the Department of State. The rigorous, continual customer discovery process demands fortitude, students say.

Lean 275

Lean Saudi Arabia Austria Silicon Valley 275

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Building off last spring’s pioneering Hacking for Defense class, which sought to connect Silicon Valley’s innovation culture and mindset to the Pentagon and the intelligence community, we’ve now expanded our horizons to the Department of State. The rigorous, continual customer discovery process demands fortitude, students say.

Lean 120

Lean Saudi Arabia Austria Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.

Czech Republic 113

Czech Republic San Francisco Campaign Washington 113