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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. How would customer interviews work via video? All the presentations are worth a watch.

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The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Steve Blank

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. If you had dropped by in 2011, the first time I taught the class, and then stuck your head in today, you’d say it was the same class.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. What a year.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

They attracted curiosity and in-bound user potential with an infographic-type video describing the site. It wasn’t just a plain (read: boring) video about some company launching. People shared and watched the video more than 50,000 times in a couple of weeks. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! quiet interesting.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

Each of the six teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem and then gave an 8-minute presentation of their Lessons Learned over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. If you can’t see the video of Palmer Luckey click here. If you can’t see the Panacea 2-minute video click here.

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