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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. as well as in the UK and Australia.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Startup firms partnering with government? Really?

Austin Startup

And yet, in spite of all this, small emerging firms are largely left out of government contracting. Selling to the government is a slow process in the beginning. They dislike bureaucratic processes even more, so the government marketplace has never been an attractive option for startup firms. That may be about to change.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.

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