Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2020

It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. If you’re early in your career, now is the time to consider what it would take to make a pivot. In the end, the measure of your life will not be money or time. In the end, our report-card will be whether we left the world a better place.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2018

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry – at startups and venture capital firms – and the interaction between men and women in the two.

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Part-Time VPE Leadership Silicon Valley Los Angeles 321

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Amid these uncertain times we believe that Lean educators can prepare students for this new investing climate and help communities recover.We’ll discuss how the pandemic has shifted not just the way we teach, but also what we teach about today’s investing climate and how we can use the Lean methodology to make an impact on our communities.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Lean Community 352

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. “…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”. The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

Steve Blank

JANUARY 19, 2022

This is the fifth edition of this semi-annual gathering, a supportive peer community of educators, and we’ll meet to discuss how we adapt to meet the challenges of the current tumultuous environment. We look forward to gathering as a community to continue shaping the future of Lean Innovation Education.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For my current company Infleqtion , I was introduced to a former senior Intelligence Community official who previously served on a board with the CEO, who made an introduction. I didn’t have a resume when I was looking for jobs. I had to find senior people who had left the agency who would vouch for me.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Here’s what we learned. — Background.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S. Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Upon her retirement from CIA, she received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I didn’t want to have to sell back into the intelligence community, because I didn’t want to leverage my contacts so tactically, but plenty of people do it (and we need good people to do it. I knew I wanted to stay/go into an operator role because that’s where the business learning I sought would happen.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Following Steve’s Golden Rule that entrepreneurs were not allowed as guest speakers in class, I went out to the community and located entrepreneurs who needed help with their customer discovery process. Leverage your local entrepreneurship community in meaningful ways, instead of using them as guest speakers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Since then, I have been teaching Customer Development and running Lean LaunchPad style classes at variety of universities, national research laboratories, incubators, and startup communities throughout Japan. After three years of evangelizing, I am very pleased to see success cases emerging in Japan by following Customer Development Model.

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Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

Share with the community —If your new service works, be sure to share this knowledge with your community, whether that’s on Facebook groups or in virtual meet-ups. If it didn’t work, sharing with your community is still valuable as you may swap stories that may inspire you to go a different direction entirely.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Train the Trainers. Lessons Learned.

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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. How to gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Mission-driven entrepreneurship is the answer to students who say, “I want to give back.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Five years ago, Joe Felter , Pete Newell and I realized that few of our students considered careers in the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community. Today there is a national network of 40 colleges and universities teaching Hacking for Defense.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2020

Our first priority is the health and safety of our families, employees, customers and communities. (Read it along with yesterdays survival strategy advice to CEOs.). I thought it was important enough to share it with all of you. Action This Day. As CFOs, our next key priority is preserving cash. For immediate action : 1.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Following Steve’s Golden Rule that entrepreneurs were not allowed as guest speakers in class, I went out to the community and located entrepreneurs who needed help with their customer discovery process. Leverage your local entrepreneurship community in meaningful ways, instead of using them as guest speakers.

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Lean Cleveland Ohio Business Model 201

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For the next decade ERA would continue to deliver a stream of special-purpose code breaking electronic systems and subsystems for the Navy cryptologic community. These NSA documents give a hint at the number and variety of encryption and decryption equipment at NSA in the early 1950’s: here , here, here , here , and here.)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. This effort was over a decade in the making and something that the local community fought hard for. Business Community Support.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2020

We look forward to gathering as a community of educators to shape the future of Lean Innovation Education in the COVID-19 era. . This session is free to all, but limited to Innovation educators. You can register for the event here and/or learn more on our website.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

One of the shortcomings has been that there is not sufficient connectivity between the policy community in Washington and the innovation community out here at Stanford and Silicon Valley or for that matter on the East Coast or points in between. We’re trying to build that connectivity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2014

We’re Doing This For Our Community. I soon learned that developers love new soccer fields, new parks, new schools, homes for the disabled, and they generously offer these and other improvements to the local community as part of a package – approve this project and I’ll throw in this benefit. Boy was I dumb.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Miriam was similarly introduced to entrepreneurship at a young age: My father, Frank Altman, is the founder and CEO of an organization called Community Reinvestment Fund. We have a lot of deep passion for the issue areas and experience in the community, but not a technical expertise. We had no idea what a hackathon was.

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Steve Blank

MAY 24, 2021

We look forward to gathering as a community of educators to shape the future of Lean Innovation Education. This session is free to all but limited to Innovation educators. You can register for the event here and/or learn more on our website. See you on June 3 rd 1pm – 4pm EDT, 10am-1pm PDT. Bring your best ideas! Register here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The program expands to all of Startup Weekend’s 350 member communities in 2013 where it will be offered up to five times a year in each city. And we are looking for other partners worldwide to help make this successful. The first four-week Startup Weekend Next classes will start on Nov. 28 in more than 25 cities worldwide.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Next, we wanted the students to learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. Origins of the class.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

When the National Science Foundation stopped holding their annual conference of I-Corps instructors, it offered us the opportunity to embrace a larger community beyond the NSF – now to include the Hacking for Defense, NSIN, and Lean LaunchPad educators. (All the breakout session slides are here.).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest. However, what I found in Bend was a deeply entrepreneurial community that is leaps and bounds beyond just a destination resort town. What’s Different. Entrepreneurs in Bend.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, there are entire support communities for non-work issues (psychologists, group therapy, etc.) I finally realized that getting out of my head at home gave me space to be more effective at work. However, it’s often even harder to ask for help because of embarrassment, denial, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

In order to get the healthcare community to collaborate with each other to bring new ideas to market they will need some help to catalyze the “co” part of co-working. One of the noticeable things about the San Diego health tech community is that it feels like a community. It has density,” he said. Others Are Doing this As Well.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. This fall a series of new “Hacking for X…” classes will address these deserving communities. These include: Hacking for Impact (helping NGO’s and Nonprofits) at Berkeley.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Train the Trainers. Lessons Learned.

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Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

Steve Blank

JULY 8, 2014

Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends and live a good life. If there’s no funding for startups in your community - get up and move to where it is. And for them that’s great.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

federal science agencies and in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Examples of team-based innovation programs are the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps @ NSF), for the Intelligence Community I?Corps@ But it is only recently that we realized why some programs succeed and others are failing.

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Programming Incubator Leadership Silicon Valley 320

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Deciding between the applicants, their lobbyists, the environmental community, the staff, the coastal act and the law. But why serve your community, state or country? It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. And each month I’d have to read through 100 staff reports to figure out how to vote.

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