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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. 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.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

He extended an invitation to me to come out to the Academy in Colorado Springs to address the cadets and meet the faculty. Then it was on to Colorado Springs and the Air Force Academy. Army, wasn’t an independent military branch until 1947, set up their academy in 1955 in Colorado Springs. Military Academies.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

During the same period (1987 – 1990) and I did some work at MIT under Eric von Hippel on “user driven innovation with regard to software development&# which today would probably fall under the heading of “open source software development approaches.&# Read the rest. That way, you can know what youre in for in advance.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

He extended an invitation to me to come out to the Academy in Colorado Springs to address the cadets and meet the faculty. Then it was on to Colorado Springs and the Air Force Academy. Army, wasn’t an independent military branch until 1947, set up their academy in 1955 in Colorado Springs. Military Academies.

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Fall speaking tour starts tomorrow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Fall speaking tour starts tomorrow Tomorrow morning, I hop on a plane to Boulder, Colorado to kick off the largest speaking tour Ive ever attempted. After Colorado, in September Ill be in DC for Gov 2.0 Ill continue to post updates, slides, and video as I get them. Expo SF (May.

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

But nothing Ive read so far really does justice to what I witnessed in Colorado and Nevada. Obama understood the two concepts that are essential for building a high-performance, highly adaptable, agile organization: 1) rapid iteration and 2) clear values-based objectives. Heres some of what I learned from the experience.