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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Their recommendations drew on insights gleaned from over 242 !

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5 Sources Of Ideas That Turn Into The Next Big Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool.

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Why Boardroom Technology Is Necessary for Effective Succession Planning

Board Effect

There’s a need for modern governance today. Modern governance is the practice of empowering leaders with the technology, insights and processes required to fuel good governance. based activist group challenged the legislation with a lawsuit alleging that the new law is illegal under California law.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. Fred Turner : Yes.

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5 Generators Of Customer Pain Conducive To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. And that is what we’ll do.” Now they are partners.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

timoreilly : Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Tim O’Reilly shares the stories of the alpha geeks on Twitter. brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. jerBrightcove : Founder and CEO of Brightcove Jeremy Allaire discusses video services and beyond.

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