Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B to these efforts over a three-year period.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River. I used to work for a company located in Arlington, VA that had the CIA as a client.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Lean, MVPs and the DOD. 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. Somebody signed a memo saying, “Go stand up a joint AI Center. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Mark has a unique ability to use his name and his platform to open doors. 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. Here's my conversation with Mark Cuban. You can't fall back. Why wouldn't I?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. 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. But at the same time, if schools get closed or weird, you can lean much more heavily on them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver. Sydney Gressel : One of my favorite meditation teachers is a man named Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Here is the team behind Frontline Foods.

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