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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. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. She served as the U.S.

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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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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Make sure you have the right developer(s) on board in whatever capacity you need them, whether it’s a part time HTML or Wordpress developer or a full time PHP wiz.

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Super Bowls and Scenes

Austin Startup

And, if the trend in recent years holds true, a number of the plans will be designed around commercializing technology or other discoveries originating with university research. I, for one, am hoping to see some novel apps and other mobile products and technologies this year.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Part of the answer lies in technology, mobility, and a smaller footprint which allows for iteration and evolution of the business as it develops, without the relentless pressure of huge overhead. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Photo credit: travisschmidt1. Video credit: SusieFoodie.