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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Stay tuned. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Student Feedback.

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How to Beat Inequity in Investment

Austin Startup

Unfortunately, this is largely due to our institutional structures, but, while we can’t tell you how to topple the institution, we can give some tips on how to play the game, get ahead, and get funded. This is something that, again, may not be controllable due to institutional structures at play.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

Somewhat to their surprise, the tech section is one of the highly-trafficked and well-read topics. PureWow offers content on categories like recipes, books, home decor, and gardening, but tech remains one of the strongest. For example, consider PureWow, a general lifestyle content site focused on women over 30.

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Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!

Occam's Razor

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. I bumped into the lesson thanks to their NFL sponsorship.

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