Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation.

San Diego 120

San Diego Developer Los Angeles Afghanistan 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) For example, missions into Afghanistan are 6-8 hours versus normal mission times of 2-3 hours.). that’s pretty easy.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He was also born here and went to UT Austin before heading out to Silicon Valley for a stint. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work. Solution 5 : The reality is that the DoD/IC is not Silicon Valley. Newell ran the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. This entire class session was a talk by General Shanahan and Q&A with the students. But once you put it in the real world you learn it never works as advertised.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

The Air Force turned out to be the first melting pot I would encounter (Silicon Valley the next) where individuals from different classes and culture had the opportunity to share a common goal and move beyond the environment they grew up in.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. On the floor of the House, Lipinski said, “Rapid, low-cost technological innovation is what makes Silicon Valley revolutionary, but the DOD hasn’t historically had the mechanisms in place to harness this American advantage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. You were hanging out in Silicon Valley, I'm sure many people must have told you, "You’ve got to monetize this.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What do you think is the opportunity for Silicon Valley and the students in our class here at Stanford, to play a role in national security? I was a marine three-star in Afghanistan. And try keeping our values foremost, to show the world we mean to make this work. We are not out to keep China down. I got a phone call one day.

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