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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while being challenged to solve some of the toughest problems.”.

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. Do we want to solve the hoarding issue in our community? Absolutely.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. But I believe that it creates an authentic relationship with your community. For me it’s more interesting to speak to their user community’s issues.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. I would say for the quarantine, I think, it's made me really appreciate how much we can communicate with people digitally. My parents and my brother live in Southern California.

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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. He connects the Lab with the defense user community. Prior to that, he worked for an integrated trading company in which he built several new businesses by collaborating with high-tech startups in California.

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