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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. Several will join the new Stanford Gordian Knot Center which is focused on the intersection of policy, operational concepts, and technology.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While Stanford does a formal survey of student reviews of the class, this year we wanted more granular data on how remote learning affected their class experience. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Student Feedback. He runs H4X Labs. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

In-between class sessions, we reviewed each team’s mission model canvas and sent them a detailed critique of each of the boxes on the right side of their canvas. The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. See all the H4D posts here.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

In-between class sessions, we reviewed each team’s mission model canvas and sent them a detailed critique of each of the boxes on the right side of their canvas. The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. See all the H4D posts here.

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Giving Tuesday: Five Ways to Engage Your Board

Board Effect

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. People are receiving emails, postcards and social media ads from lots of nonprofits in the weeks around Thanksgiving.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

We live in a social media universe now and all of them, particularly in the NBA, have very large platforms. And the good news is they're social media babies, right? We reviewed the story of The Diary of Anne Frank and what she went through. All of us are getting these awful messages on social media, by email.

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Simple Lessons In Never Giving Up

Duct Tape Marketing

Martha deployed six times to the Middle East and Afghanistan, flying 325 combat hours in the A-10 attack plane, earning the Bronze Star and six air medals. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I mean we often would take off in Afghanistan. Martha McSally (22:53): Yes, social media. Duct Tape Transcript.