Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. By the middle of this year Hacking For Defense started to feel like it had the same momentum as when my Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford got adopted by the National Science Foundation and became the Innovation Corps (I-Corps).

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

And that the Lean Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption and create continuous innovation for large commercial organizations were equally relevant here. For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) But using Lean Innovation they’ll fail quickly and cheaply.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. Cold War strategy had gone from a “let’s be friends” to a “yes we can win” strategy. By the mid 1980s Ronald Reagan was cranking U.S. defense spending even higher. Arms control with the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

I mean people out there don't realize the cost per click for advertising is going down. The customer acquisition costs are going down. You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. Buy these sandals and we'll contribute money to building schools in Afghanistan for girls who otherwise couldn't go to school. I'm like, "Yes."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

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. Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? We were imagining that this would be for either.We

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JUNE 15, 2020

And we at the time made it $1,000 because that was around the cost of serving one of those units. And she had some time and she did our brand work in six days that another VP of marketing and I were commenting on as we were looking at it, this is a work product that we've all seen before and has cost $100,000 and taken six months.

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