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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries. Presentation Format. Team: Learn2Win.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. Today, people laugh if somebody says that’s a capstone entrepreneurship class.

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Cannabis Entrepreneurs Coming to Austin

Austin Startup

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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“Is Austin Racist?” Let’s Start There.

Austin Startup

Task forces, speeches, and commission meetings can only go so far to eradicate decades of intentional efforts to extract value from people and places without making the kind of community investments that enable equity and inclusion. Maybe that’s by design. “Is candidate, Lakeya Omogun, recently called disingenuous. Is Austin Racist?”

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