Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Navy) There are several theories of how innovation in military doctrine and new operational concepts occur. Or a military service can generate innovation internally when senior military officers recognize the doctrinal and operational implications of new capabilities, e.g., Rickover and the Nuclear Navy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial Technology. Another startup is providing a resilient, mesh local area network for secure tactical communications supporting ground units. New startups focused on national security have sprung up and they and their investors have been banging on the closed doors of the defense department.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Rather, it was the German Army that honed the operational concepts (Blitzkrieg, combined arms) and added complementary tools (radios in tanks, tactical air support.) Slides 10-13). Institutional inertia is a social problem.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We just held our sixth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

Technology 388

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. The founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The money – secure the backing and support to get real. Building a business requires funding – for inventory, marketing, and operations. Commitment, tenacity, and agility are key in this stage. What they found was that what really mattered was less about who was on the team, and more about how the team worked together.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We just held our tenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

We just held our fourteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

They operate on the premise that if you don't get results, you won't get results. An increased cyber security threat exposes the company to the risk of losing data on our local servers. The cloud, albeit expensive, offers the business better security and multiple backup points. It's important to keep business agile.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Rather, it was the German Army that honed the operational concepts (Blitzkrieg, combined arms) and added complementary tools (radios in tanks, tactical air support.) Slides 10-13). Institutional inertia is a social problem.

Technology 122

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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. Team: Panacea.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? We have a lot of edge case operational scenarios that we intentionally keep as a manual task rather than automating.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects after this class. First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. This post is a continuation of the series.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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. Team: TrackID. (Our

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. We do what?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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. Their sponsors agreed. This is the End. 21 st Century Frogman.

Silicon Valley 182

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. We do what?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

No need to worry about security and such. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

So theoretically if interest rates go up (aka duration risk) or the creditworthiness (aka credit spreads) of the US or the corporations Zynga owns bonds of changes dramatically, they could lose a small amount particularly on their long-term securities. multiple (net of cash) of either adjusted EBITDA or operating cashflow.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Covertix , an information security firm has raised an undiclosed amount in its second round led by Kima Ventures. Covertix is enjoying the momentum of Wikileaks as organizations become more wary of their data security. Israeli startup acquisitions. SohoOS raised $1.75 million from Mangrove Partners.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2022

We even consulted other e-commerce operators, and they had similar experiences. It also allows me to provide support to those flailing businesses through my acquisitions. 23- Psychological security. Thanks to Mila Alichaev, Manhattan Laser Spa ! #5- 5- Fostering a customer-centric authority over the business.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

agile methodologies, aligning tools stacks). acquisition, conversion, onboarding, activation, etc.). This created accountability for the customer experience across the functions and removed conflicting priorities when looking at operating models and the technology underpinning our capability. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Passive sniffer.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year.

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