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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Several will join the new Stanford Gordian Knot Center which is focused on the intersection of policy, operational concepts, and technology. It Started With An Idea.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. It Started with an Idea. He runs H4X Labs. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. It Started with an Idea. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology. Could they make businesses out of it?