Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 130

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 130

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. In fact, there's a term now, it's called, "OT," as in operations technology. That’s what the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) is for.

Southern California 123

Southern California North America Finance Lean 123

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities. So we are now very well-versed in being parents and entrepreneurs. We looked at ourselves and we said, what are we best at?

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. As I later discovered, Joe’s first act was 24 years in the Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), retiring as a Colonel. Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force.

Washington 220

Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 220

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.

Colorado 60

Colorado Southern California Business Plan Oregon 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Wondering how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so.

Southern California 185

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 185