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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

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.

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

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. (During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Sign up here.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I think there are more enterpreneurs per capita here than anywhere else! September 15, 2009 7:24 AM Mikesaid. It would be great to see you in Madrid! September 18, 2009 12:21 PM max said.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.