Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Balance is fundamental to building a healthy community and managing the challenges that come our way. We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. 8-Stay agile. 1- Balance is key. Photo Credit: Calista Redmond.

Offshore 134

Offshore Entrepreneur Jordan Agile 134

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. The program expands to all of Startup Weekend’s 350 member communities in 2013 where it will be offered up to five times a year in each city.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

They operated this way because their existing business models didn’t allow them to initially profit from those opportunities – so they ignored them – and continued to chase higher profitability in more-demanding segments. Innovation Theater) in companies and government organizations, rather than creating actual innovation.

Lean 428

Lean Business Model Government Agile 428

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Since most of our lives are governed by maintenance, innovation becomes a form of deviating from the norm and creating constructive conflict. The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what

SBIR 48

SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations.

Community 212

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? The Educator/Sponsor Class.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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? The Educator/Sponsor Class.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.” They’ve become outward-facing universities. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. What do all these groups in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DOD/IC) have in common? Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. North Korea.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Boards Are Getting Smaller The number of volunteers who sit on governance boards has been shrinking. In the past, it was common for boards to have 30 or 40 members, with organizations asking their major donors and funders to send representatives to serve as part of the governance team. Smaller boards may be more agile.”

Agile 52

Agile Government Equity Leadership 52

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. This can be particularly true in the government where the acquisition lifecycle imposes “shipbuilding timelines” on information technology systems. Always Be Shipping.

Framework 322

Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. This can be particularly true in the government where the acquisition lifecycle imposes “shipbuilding timelines” on information technology systems. Always Be Shipping.

Framework 322

Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

Board Effect

JULY 14, 2022

Fiduciary duties are a central part of good governance. Be mindful that your community and the stakeholders are watching you in public and possibly in private. Nonprofit boards face a host of financial and operational challenges. Be flexible, agile, and available for however long it lasts.

Government 98

Government Agile Community Reputation 98

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Board Effect

APRIL 14, 2021

The group may include people in a particular community or a group of people that have specific characteristics in common. Nonprofits that only meet the current needs of their constituents may succeed for the short term, but they’re destined to fail over the long term, leaving a great void of community needs in their wake.

Community 98

Community Agile Government Social Media 98

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Agile 120

Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. Use Cases/ Concept of Operations. Legal issues.

Incubator 312

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 312

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Does legal need to sign off for cyber operations?

Business Model 120

Business Model Revenue Channel Community 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And this idea of user-defined operating picture is with us today. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

Artificial Inteligence 246

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 246

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development.

Lean 258

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. And the venture capital community became comfortable in funding them. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on other researchers and the venture capital community. But by the early 1960?s

Engineer 305

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

O’Connor and her team intend to co-create this plan with the broader community; and in coming months, will conduct an inventory of Smart City assets to align the plan’s development and activities. Including accessibility and purposeful inclusion into Austin’s Smart City Strategic builds a more trusted governance model.

Austin 54

Austin LLC Texas Government 54

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These boards are more agile and can make decisions quickly when necessary. Organizations with proven track record on ESG efforts and goals are more likely to be deemed trust-worthy by their community and the public at large. Smaller boards can mean closer ties among board members and increased satisfaction for members.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Software Review Security 52

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. When the incidence rate is small, emails or text messages are a great mechanism. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Five years ago, Joe Felter , Pete Newell and I realized that few of our students considered careers in the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community. This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century. Fast forward to today.

Artificial Inteligence 368

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Iran 368

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. I love governments!

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

This process helps me to think differently, giving me the agility to think fast on my feet. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo credit: Heather T. The creative process from creating ideas to developing strategies is what I find to be the most self- rewarding. Thanks to Heather T, Imagecreativebhx ! #21-

Entrepreneur 146

Entrepreneur Technical Review Africa Revenue 146

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It was time to take their claim, their rightful place in the international community.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300