Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. Hacking for Defense at UC San Diego: Taught Fall 2016/next class 2017. Hacking for Defense at Boise State: Began Monday, January 9.

San Diego 191

San Diego Afghanistan Iraq Silicon Valley 191

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. Hacking for Defense at UC San Diego: Taught Fall 2016/next class 2017. Hacking for Defense at Boise State: Began Monday, January 9.

San Diego 120

San Diego Afghanistan Iraq Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country.

San Diego 159

San Diego Developer Los Angeles Afghanistan 159

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from access to talent that most likely would never have served the country.

San Diego 120

San Diego Developer Los Angeles Afghanistan 120

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

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. I-Corps uses Lean Startup methods to teach scientists how to turn their discoveries into entrepreneurial, job-producing businesses. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads. Fast forward a year.

Washington 220

Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 220

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

Steve Blank

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. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

Silicon Valley 197

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 197