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 8, 2021

As we thought about how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so. Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Team Flexible Fingerprints – Improve Cybersecurity. as well as in the UK and Australia.

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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: Common Ground.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Well, you can fly from San Francisco, from San Jose, from Oakland. I hope this framework of thinking about Frequency, Density and Pain of the Problem and the Friction of the Solution will help founders to think about what they’re doing. How many people need to travel from SF to LA? How painful is it to get from SF to LA?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 9, 2018

It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?” Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY. .

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