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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

China’s Anti-Satellite Demonstration. The next demarcation was 2007, when China launched a missile that blew up one of their own satellites into about 3000 pieces of debris. There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. While You Were Out. military strengths. What To Do About It?

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

Most startups are driven by high-end technology, innovations, and agile testing, with the help of which new trends are being born. A vivid example of a trendsetting market could be China, as it is known for its phenomenal success in the e-commerce industry. Initially, we started watching the trend with live commerce.

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Does your startup really need to hire in-house developers?

The Next Web

Derek Capo , Next Step China. . Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage. In-house development gives you more day-to-day control, and lean software development is far more feasible.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century.