Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011.

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JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners. Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia. In 2012, Rep.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Stock Quotes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. My fondness for libraries and my reading habit carried through to the Air Force, and this technical school had an awesome technology library.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? Shut up and keep fixing that equipment.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Reply Palantir Technologies » The Secret History of Silicon Valley , on April 16, 2009 at 3:03 am Said: [.] Then think some more. The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense Syste… [.]

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