Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. 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. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed.

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MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Worth a read.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas). Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn or Chicago or Oakland or with college-educated parents who went to HBCUs, but I am a child of cities and towns with far greater percentages of black people. Maybe that’s by design. “Is candidate, Lakeya Omogun, recently called disingenuous. but it’s always my choice. Is Austin Racist?” Let’s Start There.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

But all of those meals that we have been providing for the last 14 years, qualify for the federal subsidy programs that are designed to increase food security for kids and families in low income areas. We had just started expanding into some senior meal programs.

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