Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Companies have more demos than they’ll ever need. which we call problem curation. “Is

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like other parts of the Department of Defense (the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA) and the Defense Innovation unit Experimental (DIUX),) NGA’s Outpost Valley team is using a Hacking for Defense sprint to build a scalable process for recruiting industry and other partners to get solutions to real problems deployed at speed.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like other parts of the Department of Defense (the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA) and the Defense Innovation unit Experimental (DIUX),) NGA’s Outpost Valley team is using a Hacking for Defense sprint to build a scalable process for recruiting industry and other partners to get solutions to real problems deployed at speed.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this class, we partnered with sponsors in the State Department including: Office of Space and Advanced Technology. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” And what a journey it’s been.

Silicon Valley 184

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 184

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this class, we partnered with sponsors in the State Department including: Office of Space and Advanced Technology. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” And what a journey it’s been.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120