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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeff Decker , a Stanford researcher focusing on dual-use research.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher. Jeff served in the U.S.

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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Steve Blank

In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The result is that the DoD has world-class people and organizations for a world that no longer exists. It isn’t that the DoD doesn’t know how to innovate on the battlefield.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we pointed out in previous class sessions, in the 20th century, requirements were known years ahead of time and the DoD built incrementally better versions of the same platforms. centric rules for war were built around known adversaries and technologies.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Kids from eight countries, including Cambodia, Eastern DR Congo, and Afghanistan, have participated in Dot-to-Dot projects.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel

Steve Blank

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we pointed out in previous class sessions, in the 20th century, requirements were known years ahead of time and the DoD built incrementally better versions of the same platforms. centric rules for war were built around known adversaries and technologies.