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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. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Tom Bedecarré , the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. From its beginning with our Stanford class, Hacking for Defense is now offered in over 50 universities in the U.S., He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

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. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Digital Undivided does this by offering workshops and resources in cities with predominantly black populations: Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Oakland and the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. And then there’s what Finney calls “Tech’s advertising problem.”. “If

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians.

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

YoungUpstarts

and personal and advertising injury. Barrera is a partner with law firm Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP in Oakland, Calif. General liability insurance is the most basic type of coverage for businesses. It protects a business from claims by third parties of bodily injury, property damage. He may be reached at gbarrera@wendel.com.

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Startup firms partnering with government? Really?

Austin Startup

Cities that are currently participating in the Startups in Residence program include the California cities of Oakland, San Leandro and San Francisco, and Washington D.C. The program was so successful the city is now advertising for interested firms to apply for the coming year. There are numerous examples of success.