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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

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. If you can’t see the video of Palmer Luckey click here. Presentation Format.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

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.”

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Find your forward and your point guard.

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“Is Austin Racist?” Let’s Start There.

Austin Startup

So like many of the topics I try to lean into with a bit more thought than a tweet, I’ve decided that I just may be uniquely equipped to answer a question that has recently been asked of the city I love. “Is Maybe that’s by design. “Is Is Austin racist?” candidate, Lakeya Omogun, recently called disingenuous. Is Austin Racist?”

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. So what do you do if you go to your local claim website and the site was designed to handle 10,000 claims over the past three years.

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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

We had two prospective clients this past week where their overall site design was good enough that they didn’t need a full redesign. You may have a great product or service and great design on your existing site, but you know you could be doing better. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.”. –

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

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.