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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford ā€“ Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. North Korea. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. Lessons Learned.

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The Red Queen Problem ā€“ Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

Iā€™m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. As each new technology created new military systems, new operational concepts were developed (bows and arrows were used differently than rocks, etc.).