Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

and people are not limited to the Silicon Valley area. People between these ages tend to lean towards working at startups while also bringing something new to the table while having the necessary skills and experience to thrive. Launching a startup has never been easier in the U.S., Why this range? District of Columbia.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

But, getting in the doors of a Sand Hill Road VC in Silicon Valley can be an incredibly difficult undertaking. Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. andrewchen.co.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. He extended an invitation to me to come out to the Academy in Colorado Springs to address the cadets and meet the faculty. He promised that one day he would fix that.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. He extended an invitation to me to come out to the Academy in Colorado Springs to address the cadets and meet the faculty. He promised that one day he would fix that.

Silicon Valley 151

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 151

Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Brad Feld’s new book Startup Communities joins the two other “must reads,” ( Regional Advantage and Startup Nation ) and one “must view” ( The Secret History of Silicon Valley ) for anyone trying to understand the components of a regional cluster. His list of cultural attributes is an integral part of Silicon Valley.

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