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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Felter , retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Felter retired Army Colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.