SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

Innovation incorporates lean methodologies (customer discovery, problem understanding, MVPs, Pivots), coupled with speed and urgency, and a culture where failure equals rapid learning. We pointed out that Silicon Valley and Stanford have done this for 50 years. Acquire at Speed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Lean, MVPs and the DOD. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. This entire class session was a talk by General Shanahan and Q&A with the students. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC. We started with a cross-functional team.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. Here’s why.

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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. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements.

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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. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees. The Educator Class: What We Learned.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Lean into it. Step on the scale.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Given my Air Force career I came thinking that sharing the Secret History of Silicon Valley talk with 1000 soon to be Air Force Officers would be the highpoint of the visit.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? However, there are a few storm coulds out there that we need to be watching. Absolutely.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I I-Corps uses Lean Startup methods to teach scientists how to turn their discoveries into entrepreneurial, job-producing businesses.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

He also shared his perspective on M&A (including Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates and Drizly), autonomous vehicles, the complexities of working in highly regulated industries, and how his personal and professional background shaped the way he approaches leadership today. RH: The honor is ours. This is awesome.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. The appeal of promoting entrepreneurship is obvious.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. Ultimately, we sold that company to Silicon Valley Bank and it became the genesis of Silicon Valley Bank’s open platform approach. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank.

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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. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class. Origins of the class.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Small Business Newsletter: 7 habits of successful entrepreneurs, lean marketing and more – [link]. The next big enterprise acquisition target? Disruptions: Let Silicon Valley Eat … Ramen Noodles? US government and Stack Exchange launch crowdsourced patent process – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Given my Air Force career I came thinking that sharing the Secret History of Silicon Valley talk with 1000 soon to be Air Force Officers would be the highpoint of the visit.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees. The Educator Class: What We Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

The class teaches students the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship while they engage in what amounts to national public service. Most discussion about innovation of defense systems acquisition starts with writing a requirements document. Besides working with their government sponsors, each team has a dedicated industry mentor.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. One of the interesting innovation challenges I’ve encountered centers on a company’s culture.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting.

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