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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Team Neurosmart – Optimizing Performance of Special Operators. Stay tuned.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

For those that don’t know, I live in downtown Oakland which has been one of the protest flashpoints. Even now, Target leaders are assembling community members, partners and local officials to help identify what more we can do together and what resources are required to help families, starting right here in Minnesota. That is true now.

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There’s Plenty Of Risk In A Startup: Insurance Can Help Limit Liability

YoungUpstarts

Barrera, partner with law firm Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP. Thus, a startup that foregoes property insurance risks the ability to repair or replace lost or damaged property – which may affect how the efficiency and operation of the business. Barrera is a partner with law firm Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP in Oakland, Calif.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

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 military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. They invent things.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. We're no longer operating at the speed of government. We're operating at the speed of need in this because people are there to just do it.

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Cats With Your Coffee? What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Purringtons Cat Cafe

Up and Running

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Purringtons will operate both as a restaurant and as a shelter where cats live on-site; they even plan on adopting out the cats to interested patrons. they are treading on very new ground.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."