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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. Lessons Learned.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. “…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”. The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland.

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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. Lessons Learned.

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Introducing Umi Kitchen: A Platform for Culinary Entrepreneurs

Version One Ventures

Umi can also dynamically control its offerings based on local demand. Khalil Tawil is a graduate of West Point and a veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan. What makes these two different is that they have a huge passion for building communities through food.

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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. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

That demands the right combination of tactical urgency and strategic patience, but there’s no question we have to move with alacrity on this right now. The first time you use it in Afghanistan you realize you never trained it against data that had women wearing full-length black burkas, it didn’t know what those were.

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Government Agencies needed to help their communities build skilled labor pools to attract new industries.

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