Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Just as I was getting settled into Zilog, the manager of the training department got fired. (I I was beginning to think that my hiring managers were related to red-shirted guys on Star Trek.) At the end of two days I realized, This was the first full weekend I had taken off since I had moved to California 3 years ago.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Among other things, A-List carries the significant benefit of being able to skip ahead of long airport security lines in the “Fly By Lane.” One would think the combination of being an A-Lister flying on a Business Select fare ought to be the textbook definition of “ valuable customer.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished in 10 weeks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. Silicon Valley’s development is intimately entwined with the long history of industrialization and innovation in the larger San Francisco Bay Area.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) Several wealthy families in the U.S. set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries. Whitney Co. That same year Laurance Rockefeller founded Rockefeller Brothers, Inc.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2015

This course from the University of California, Irvine Continuing Education department, will introduce you to the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial process and how to recognize business opportunities. See Also The Pixar-inspired Guide to Managing a Creative Company. DQ101: Introduction to Decision Quality.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories which used supercompurters to run their hydrodynamics codes to simulate what went on in the first microseconds in a nuclear weapon and the National Security Agency (with Cray putting in a special population count hardware instruction) used to facilitate decryption of codes.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Task Management. Project Management Tools. No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management.

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