Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Since then 8 universities have taught the Hacking for Defense class or put it on their academic calendar for 2017: UC San Diego , Georgetown , Air Force , University of Pittsburgh , James Madison University , Boise State , RIT, and Stanford. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

San Diego 159

San Diego Developer Los Angeles Afghanistan 159

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Since then 8 universities have taught the Hacking for Defense class or put it on their academic calendar for 2017: UC San Diego , Georgetown , Air Force , University of Pittsburgh , James Madison University , Boise State , RIT, and Stanford. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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. Dan Lipinski (D-Il), ranking member on the House Research and Technology Subcommittee, got on an airplane and flew to Stanford to see first-hand the class that would become I-Corps.

Washington 220

Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 220

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. The teaching team consisted of: Pete Newell is a retired Army Colonel currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy and CEO of BMNT.

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

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The team validated several critical hypotheses about technology and acquisition (slide 2), further refined their Minimum Viable Product (slide 3) and really dug into the path of getting a solution acquired and deployed in the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in slides 4 – 9. They mapped how to get a product deployed in JIDA in slide 9.

San Diego 137

San Diego Lean Iraq Acquisition 137

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The team validated several critical hypotheses about technology and acquisition (slide 2), further refined their Minimum Viable Product (slide 3) and really dug into the path of getting a solution acquired and deployed in the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in slides 4 – 9. They mapped how to get a product deployed in JIDA in slide 9.

San Diego 120

San Diego Lean Acquisition Iraq 120