Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Team: Learn2Win.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30)

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas). Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Several anecdotes and insights were shared by the panelists for the hour-long conversation (little known facts: Huston-Tillotson was founded here years before UT-Austin and Austin’s Public Library System is led by a black man), and then things really heated up in the packed room when anonymous audience questions were introduced.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In our conversation, we talked about the history and difficulties of school nutrition before the pandemic, scaling a company while having a young family, what's changed at Revolution Foods since March, and how investors and partners have supported and helped expand the company. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods.

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