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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oakland 278
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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Ben previously co-founded Simply Interactive, Chaotic Moon, and Conversable leading all of them to successful exits. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan.

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. You can find my conversation with Mark in that format below. Everybody can be a leader in their own community. (47:20)

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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

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Sal Khan. I remember really vividly maybe in the first week of the Shelter in Place Order, I think even before the schools had officially closed, we had a conversation. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan.