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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. while proposing minimal viable solutions.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity.

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

Steve Blank

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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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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