Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

We just finished our 6th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Hacking for Defense has teams of students working to understand and solve national security problems. What a year. With the pandemic winding down it finally feels like the beginning of the end. This would seem to be a fatal stake through the heart of the class.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. What a year. At the end of the quarter each of the eight teams give a final “Lessons Learned” presentation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

We just finished our 4th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 278

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

We just finished our 3rd annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. (Our Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class. Six teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class. Here’s a brief description of the Lean Methodology our students used: If you can’t see the video click here.

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