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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

Up and Running

Many centers also offer access to LivePlan , a business planning software with budgeting, forecasting, and benchmarking capabilities. SBDC advisors can help brainstorm strategies and address problem areas, like how to lean up your manufacturing processes. Help growing and marketing your business.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

In the 10 weeks the students have, Hacking for Defense hardware and software prototypes don’t advance beyond a Technology Readiness Level 4 and remain outside the scope of US export control regulations and restrictions on foreign national participation. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class. Origins of the class.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Computer Software. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Computer & Software Services. Software. - Mississippi. Mississippi. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Food & Tobacco.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014.