Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Team: TrackID.

Southern California 191

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 191

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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.

Silicon Valley 202

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 202

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley 131

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 131

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Martha deployed six times to the Middle East and Afghanistan, flying 325 combat hours in the A-10 attack plane, earning the Bronze Star and six air medals. Martha deploys six times to the Middle East and Afghanistan flying 325 combat hours in the A 10 attack plane ironing the Bronze Star and six air medals.

Saudi Arabia 96

Saudi Arabia Afghanistan United States Arizona 96

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

Artificial Inteligence 291

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 291

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility. We have to build into the systems for acquisition a method by which we can be far more agile. It needs to be pushed down to an appropriate level to allow for units to be more agile and to adjust if there’s a change of mission.

Technology 257

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Agile 257

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. Short of war, there would be no obvious way to get those foundries back.

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Taiwan China United States Arizona 436