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Moneyball and the Investment Readiness Level-video

Steve Blank

This video is a companion to the blog post here. 19:30 The Oakland A’s and Moneyball. I observed that now that we’ve built software to instrument and monitor the progress of new ventures (using LaunchPad Central ), that we are entering the world of evidence-based entrepreneurship and the Investment Readiness Level.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. It Takes a Village.

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Book: Neon Fever Rising

Feld Thoughts

When Eliot wrote Cumulus, he moved away from Mara but retrenched in his home town of Oakland. You’ll have to wait a little while for it, but this time, instead of Oakland, Eliot takes us to Burning Man and spend 90% of the book there over the course of a week. And then came Neon Fever Rising. But I loved it nonetheless.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. While I authored this blog post, this class is a team project. From its beginning with our Stanford class, Hacking for Defense is now offered in over 50 universities in the U.S., as well as in the UK and Australia. It Takes A Village.

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Book: Cumulus

Feld Thoughts

Eliot nails a dystopian future set in Oakland that incorporates the evolution of all the tech we are currently using. If you want the story of the book in Eliot’s words, read his thoughts about Cumulus on his blog. If you are a looking for an awesome sci-fi book to read, download Cumulus by Eliot Peper right now.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. It Takes a Village.

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The Boys - and Data - of Summer

deal architect

I wrote this post about Sabremetrics and Selling for the salesforce blog. Billy Beane of the Oakland A''s - Mr. Moneyball - is prominent in my post. He will also be keynoting at the HP Vertica Big Data conference in. Industry Commentary'

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