Steve Blank
OCTOBER 21, 2020
We have a relatively small window to transform our respective Defense Department from Industrial Age hardware-centric organizations, to Information Age software-centric, more risk tolerant ones. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 15, 2020
I got fired from a software sales job, started a systems integrator called MicroSolutions. 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. Mark Cuban : Yeah, I guess. I'm Mark Cuban. I'm on Shark Tank.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2017
It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.
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. The background in software, I just saw that a lot of my cousins. It was practice software for my cousins to learn at their own time and pace.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2018
In the 10 weeks the students have, Hacking for Defense hardware and software prototypes don’t advance beyond a Technology Readiness Level 4 and remain outside the scope of US export control regulations and restrictions on foreign national participation. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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