Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . For example, customers usually have a good intuitive understanding of the problem they have. Companies like MySpace and LinkedIn became some of our biggest customers. Filed under: Customer Development. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . For example, customers usually have a good intuitive understanding of the problem they have. Companies like MySpace and LinkedIn became some of our biggest customers. Filed under: Customer Development. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Origins of Hacking For Defense.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Whether you’re a startup business building an audience or an existing brand struggling to establish a solid base of loyal customers, developing a marketing strategy that heavily emphasizes user-generated content will benefit your product one way or another. Even negative reviews increase your customer database.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I always have to prove myself to customers, and I get many men who don’t know the first thing about taking care of their cars. The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished in 10 weeks.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Student teams will take actual national security problems and learn how to apply Lean Startup principles to discover and validate customer needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

It struck me as I watched the teams try to find how their technology would solve real customer problems, is that machine learning is following a similar pattern of previous technical infrastructure innovations. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. This team epitomized rapid learning.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 16, 2016

David was named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 for his work in launching the EduSourced software platform. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. (And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from their interview are below. His previous startup was Frewg, a regional online textbook rental service. .

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. We don’t think about that in 2016, everybody doesn’t have a smartphone. We pivoted the company toward what the market wanted, and what our users and customer wanted, but away from my initial vision and passion.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2024

During the quarter the eight teams spoke to 919 potential customers, beneficiaries and regulators. Presentation, click here Mission Driven Entreprenurship In 2016, I co-created both the Hacking for Defense course with Pete Newell and Joe Felter as well as the Hacking for Diplomacy course with Jeremy Weinstein at Stanford.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

On the last day Congress was in session in 2016, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a bill that increased innovation and research for the country. For me, seeing Congress pass this bill, the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act , was personally satisfying.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

On the last day Congress was in session in 2016, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a bill that increased innovation and research for the country. For me, seeing Congress pass this bill, the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act , was personally satisfying.

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