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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” Let me know what you think.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

She returned to her home state of Hawaii to become a mentor and advisor to tech accelerators and startups, and a parent of two before launching Hobnob. In both of her startups, Tina did a lot of customer discovery to understand customer problems and see if her products offered the right solution.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

She returned to her home state of Hawaii to become a mentor and advisor to tech accelerators and startups, and a parent of two before launching Hobnob. In both of her startups, Tina did a lot of customer discovery to understand customer problems and see if her products offered the right solution.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter: You need to be the top of game in terms of the technology that you’re presenting. ” You’re like, “Oh” and you’re lawyers in Hawaii. You need to go out and do some customer development. You need to be really ahead to your game. Jonathan: Okay. That’s not really helpful.