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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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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. What does SBIR Phase I mean, exactly? At Spark Collider, there were 100 companies present that received an initial award from the Department of Defense (DoD)— which denotes them as Phase 1 SBIR Awardees.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. There are a bunch of amazing autonomy and robotics startups in Texas, and most of them are working with Guinn Partners in one way or another.

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Coronavirus: An open letter to the Austin Startup Community

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s staff of 98 has continued to operate at full capacity while remote, supporting our community of members, mentors, partners, and founders through virtual events, meetings, and operational support.

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Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit

Steve Blank

By law , the Department of Defense has to provide Congress and the public with an assessment of where it spends its money and to provide transparency of its operations. Furthermore, it could help the Independent Public Accounting firms (KPMG, EY, PwC, Deloitte, et al) create a new practice and make them partners in the Audit 5.0

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. You got to create a different operating culture. How Can We Work More Closely with Allies and Partners?