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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product). Another example.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. They continued their MVP development underwater in a pool at Stanford.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

It will serve as a test bed for software, services and other technologies to improve the clinician/patient dynamic as well as improving workflows in the clinic. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In the 10 weeks the students have, Hacking for Defense hardware and software prototypes don’t advance beyond a Technology Readiness Level 4 and remain outside the scope of US export control regulations and restrictions on foreign national participation. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. The teams presented in front of several hundred people in person and online.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

On Slide 4-5 the team continues testing their hypotheses via customer discovery. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer. They are beginning to consider whether they should pivot to become a drone software platform. Slide 2, John Boyd and the OODA Loop (finally!)

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo (and a call for he.