Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). Two Acquisition Paradigm Shifts Raj Shah, former head of the Defense Innovation Unit, pointed out that men and women in uniform have signed up to support national security with the equipment that they are given and must make do with what you give them. faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

Silicon Valley 246

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 246

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

Oakland 266

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. They gave the problem to Colonel Bruce Jette, and 90 days and $750,000 later he had bypassed the existing Army acquisition system and bought existing robots from companies. After being ignored for decades, Boyd’s OODA Loop drove the U.S.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Should the Joint Staff have a structure for the acquisition of capabilities, making sure it matches the modernization of our operational concepts? We have to build into the systems for acquisition a method by which we can be far more agile. But the future is going to demand that we become more agile as it pertains to acquisition.

Technology 217

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

The REF had permission to shortcut the detailed 100+ page requirements documents used by the defense acquisition process and could use existing government equipment or buy or commercial-off-the-shelf technologies purchased with a government credit card or its own budget.

Silicon Valley 128

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

The REF had permission to shortcut the detailed 100+ page requirements documents used by the defense acquisition process and could use existing government equipment or buy or commercial-off-the-shelf technologies purchased with a government credit card or its own budget.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2013

According to a post that went viral on Facebook, a little girl’s father was in Afghanistan and ordered a bouquet that came with a necklace for his daughter to be delivered on Valentine’s Day. When the flowers were delivered, a necklace was not included. If You Liked This Post.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. The first time you use it in Afghanistan you realize you never trained it against data that had women wearing full-length black burkas, it didn’t know what those were. Lean, MVPs and the DOD.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

The customer acquisition costs are going down. If you can reduce your cost per customer acquisition, if you can connect in a way that expands your email database, adds more customers and allows you to connect in new ways, that's setting a platform for the future for you. They said, "What shall we do? Shall we amp up advertising?"

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. My interest was to get Stanford students engaged in national service and exposed to parts of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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.

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