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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Project Agrippa , for example, piloted a new “ Hacking for Strategy ” initiative inspired by their experience in Stanford’s “ Technology, Innovation and Modern War ” class that Raj Shah, Joe Felter and I taught last fall. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. He runs H4X Labs. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Giving Tuesday: Five Ways to Engage Your Board

Board Effect

The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts. The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Presentation Format.

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

Austin Startup

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Building An Autonomous and Virtual World: Softbank Teams With Mapbox

Feld Thoughts

I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform. Both share an exceptional way of dreaming and executing.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. In building ESL Perry made a conscious choice to emulate Hewlett Packard (then considered the “gold standard” of a great technology company.) If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born.