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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Curated Collision of Awesome Women

Austin Startup

Still recovering from the 2017 #SCFemFounders Mission! 2017 was a big year of travel for me across Tokyo, Austin Texas, Hong Kong and London. We were skilfully and admirably led by Peta Ellis who was awarded the 2017 National Techboard Community Prize whilst we were in London. the best way to pick a great mate!).

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

We serve those working in healthcare, education, government, child welfare and more. We have created a complete solution that combines age-appropriate hardware for kids with easy-to-use parent controls in the form of a smartphone app which parents can use to manage and curate connections to content and contacts directly from their own phone.

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home.

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Why you should invest in Texas

Austin Startup

The Texas startup Manifesto was written in 2017; hasn’t a lot changed since then? In Austin, the innovation departments of the US Defense departments have taken up residence, many within Capital Factory and are curating, funding and buying technology from local startups. In a word, YES!

Texas 97
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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. or maybe just #GrumpyCat. What gives?