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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We just finished our 6th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Hacking for Defense has teams of students working to understand and solve national security problems. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Origins Of Hacking For Defense. What a year.

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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

Then last night I watched the final presentations from the inaugural Hacking for National Security course in Australia before jumping over to teach Stanford’s Hacking for Defense® (H4D) class. They then incubated and delivered a solution that will help get large vessels back to sea faster, potentially saving the Navy $20M-$30M a year.

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Ways To Make Your Website More Secure

YoungUpstarts

You might be wondering what all this has to do with your little website that contains nothing worth being hacked. Most providers focus on constantly protecting their clients and servers from cyber threats. Another ingenious way for cyber criminals to access your site is to go straight to the source and hack into the admin directories.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. But in true Hacking for Defense practice we were going to deliver it in the form of edification and inspiration. Their talks to this year’s Hacking for Defense class can be seen here. Origins of Hacking For Defense. What a year.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Growth hacking is how Slack went from 15,000 to half a million daily users in its first year. Growth hacking isn’t about deploying sleazy tricks. In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. What is growth hacking? Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. He believes that the term “growth hacking” is misleading and potentially dangerous and in stead endorses good old fashioned online marketing techniques. I laughed as I did at much of his rant.

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Focus Hacks

Mike Michalowicz

It’s easy to lose focus when you spend all day in a chair. Overcoming “The Blur” As a creative person who is easily distracted I sometimes get overwhelmed with little details and my focus goes out the window. When my focus gets thrown off, I do the following: I walk over to my Xbox. Here is what they shared: 1.

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