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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

These are generating actual customer feedback, which is accelerating the teams’ learning. We’ve challenged them to consider how they will acquire, keep and grow their “customer base” – whether those customers are Syrian refugees or U.S. government bureaucrats. Teams hit the class running.

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

These are generating actual customer feedback, which is accelerating the teams’ learning. We’ve challenged them to consider how they will acquire, keep and grow their “customer base” – whether those customers are Syrian refugees or U.S. government bureaucrats. Teams hit the class running.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Retailers don’t know who their customers are, or where they are or what they bought…. Australian retailers say their customers are not ready, but the truth is that they are not ready, or even scared. The customers will become the theatre at store level and the creators by virtue of this concoction. APP Appeal.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing mission model and core capabilities to new stakeholders, customers, or targets.

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How This Entrepreneur is Giving Back to Charity Through Collagen Peptides

Hearpreneur

Glen was one of the Navy SEALS who was killed after hours of fighting heavily armed terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, in September of 2012. He was a long time San Diego resident and Navy SEAL. He was 2012 San Diego UT ‘person of the year’ alongside Ty Woods for their bravery in the Benghazi Libya terrorist attacks.

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How This Entrepreneur is Giving Back to Charity Through Collagen Peptides

Hearpreneur

Glen was one of the Navy SEALS who was killed after hours of fighting heavily armed terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, in September of 2012. He was a long time San Diego resident and Navy SEAL. He was 2012 San Diego UT ‘person of the year’ alongside Ty Woods for their bravery in the Benghazi Libya terrorist attacks.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019. You not only bring employees, but you also bring along Janji customers, right? And so for instance, we’ve got some customers who heard about us when we did like our first pop up store and they fell in love with the brand.

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