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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Project Agrippa , for example, piloted a new “ Hacking for Strategy ” initiative inspired by their experience in Stanford’s “ Technology, Innovation and Modern War ” class that Raj Shah, Joe Felter and I taught last fall. Stay tuned.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be. “We According to the latest data collected by the National Center for Women in Technology, only 25 percent of U.S. technology jobs were held by women in 2009. But in reality, Brooks is an anomaly.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Steve Seitz. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington. View All Xconomy Events ›.

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Startup firms partnering with government? Really?

Austin Startup

Cities that are currently participating in the Startups in Residence program include the California cities of Oakland, San Leandro and San Francisco, and Washington D.C. The program was so successful the city is now advertising for interested firms to apply for the coming year. There are numerous examples of success.

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The Cost of Customer Acquisition: How Much Can You Spend to Earn New Business?

Duct Tape Marketing

He compared what we as marketers do with data to the way Billy Beane approached managing the Oakland Athletics in Michael Lewis’ book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. I recently spoke with Jeff Allen, a Senior Director at Adobe Analytics , about the role data plays within marketing. Do you know?