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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Steve Blank

Instead, developing a new doctrine to deal with these new issues is fraught with disagreements, differing objectives, and incumbents who defend the status quo. The speed, depth and breadth of these disruptive changes happen faster than the responsiveness and agility of our current acquisition systems and defense-industrial base.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. North Korea.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

It can mean addressing the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and thinking about the impact of your startup on wider society and the planet as a whole. We should all care about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Need for Speed, indeed.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I think there are more enterpreneurs per capita here than anywhere else! September 15, 2009 7:24 AM Mikesaid. It would be great to see you in Madrid! September 18, 2009 12:21 PM max said. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

From Strategy to Development Whether you are out-sourcing or developing in-house there are two ways to build a system: Give your developers a rough idea of what to build and keep iterating the design as they build it; Give your developers detailed documentation of what to build.

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