Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. In 2016, women were the recipients of 4.94 Silicon valley tends to have a bias towards a certain startup founder stereotype (i.e.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. Homeslice had a great journey.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Last year we pulled off a fantastic event, and we were keen to do even better in 2016. Luiz Centenaro (@LuizCent) April 1, 2016. Growth hacking came from Silicon Valley, where people do not trust marketers. This entire model is very close to the Lean Startup model. ConversionXL Live 2016 was awesome.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. Hacking for Defense at UC San Diego: Taught Fall 2016/next class 2017. Hacking for Defense at Boise State: Began Monday, January 9.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. Hacking for Defense at UC San Diego: Taught Fall 2016/next class 2017. Hacking for Defense at Boise State: Began Monday, January 9.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Origins of Hacking For Defense.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. His name is Tomas Pueyo.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Wondering how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

We combined the Lean Startup methodology – used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science – with the rapid problem sourcing and solution methodology Pete developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq when he ran the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Hacking For Defense. In 2012, Rep.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups. Silicon Valley, California, USA. Top 10 Hot Incubators to Join in Silicon Valley. AngelList Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. We don’t think about that in 2016, everybody doesn’t have a smartphone.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Subscription Business Trends and Predictions for 2016. How to Write a Business Plan in Under an Hour.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It reminds me of living in Silicon Valley 10 years ago when so many foundational SaaS companies were started. Cloud Entrepreneurs: Embracing the “Silicon Valley State of Mind" Accel has been a big believer in cloud since the early days of this secular shift. That’s close to 6x more than in 2016.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Now many of these 200 participants are fully engaged in careers on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, and in nonprofits, and the stories they tell highlight six key leadership strengths of their guides. I leaned about the meaning of being able to rely on those on my team – and have them rely on me.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! In 2016, I take this very seriously. There's also a movement afoot in Silicon Valley for startups to give their employees the day off Monday and Tuesday so everyone can both vote and help in their communities to get out the vote.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. Would anyone ever do that?

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