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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Newell ran the U.S.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources. agile engineering. Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. Secret History of Silicon Valley.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”