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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. And our course advisor – Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP. and the U.K.

Oakland 306
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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure. Solution : Get engineering buy-in by. Their copies of the Four Steps were dog-eared and marked with sticky notes.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. Lessons Learned.

Lean 162
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Founder Interview: Michel Ruiz on Augmented Reality and Building the KaviAR Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Read on as Michel tells us about his entrepreneurial journey to have augmented reality disrupt the travel industry: TSM: To dive right in to what you do, describe the KaviAR product/service in 10 words or less: Innovative, visionary, useful, agile, reactive, adaptive, problem-solving, simple, rapid and fun. Michel researching South Africa.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. Lessons Learned.

Lean 120
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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The latest batch, sponsored by First Round, is available here. The latest batch, sponsored by First Round, is available here.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? A complete list of locations is below. Most events are free, but they all require that you RSVP in advance. Expo SF (May.