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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies.

Lean 416
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Oakland 314
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

Oakland 281
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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. —– But first some history… World War II. In World War II the U.S. The Gulf Wars.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. 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?

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Today, his company BMNT does for government and commercial customers what the Rapid Equipping Force did for the U.S. Lessons learned.

Lean 120
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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Multiple teams have been engaged by government, prime contractor and VC firms for follow-on discussions/engagements. 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?