Agile, Demo and Government

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The bill directs the expansion of I-Corps to additional federal agencies and academic institutions, as well as through state and local governments.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Washington

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. . – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

Lean

Lean Security Asia SBIR

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

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

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Navy has demos of alternatives, but there is no force structure built on a different set of principles that would complicate China’s plans and create doubt in our adversaries of whether they could prevail in a conflict. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. (Like the pre-WW2 aircraft carriers.)

Agile

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The bill directs the expansion of I-Corps to additional federal agencies and academic institutions, as well as through state and local governments.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Washington

300 Teams in Two Years

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers. I-Corps bridges the gap between public support of basic science and private capital funding of new commercial ventures. Glad to a part of it.

Lean

Lean Washington Incubator Agile

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Companies have more demos than they’ll ever need. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Programming Government

Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Until today. billion U.S. What Took You So Long.

Engineer

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition

Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. More than 700 startups signed up for the LeanLaunchLab software the day it was first demo’d.) Victor Hugo. It’s time for a change.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

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. Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey.

Southern California

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 4th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. 21 st Century Frogman.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Eureka! National Science Foundation's I-Corps Trains a New Generation of Scientists in Business

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack. Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

Community

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

Incubator

Incubator Curation Engineer Government

How to Carry Out a Board Skills Audit in 4 Simple Steps

Board Effect

JULY 16, 2023

. ———————————————————————————————– Step One: Identify What You’re Looking For Create your wishlist for a dynamic, diverse, agile, future-focused, ready-for-anything board. Governance surveys indicate that the vast majority of boards prefer to keep this task in-house with self-evaluations or evaluations by peers.

Government

Government Agile Software Leadership

HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

The then Ahmadians (Non-Muslim) Government of Pakistan joined hands with USA just in revenge of their being declared as Non-Muslims by the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Can we put our demo video on the launchrock page? But what you CAN do is put in the notification bar at the top with a link to your demo video.

Pakistan

Pakistan Social Media Startup Social Network

Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. The same holds true for Government organizations, albeit with more serious consequences. In the military it’s demos but no funding for deployments at scale.

Government

Government Non-Compete Ukraine Acquisition

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan

Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

government labs, but today most of the advances come from commercial vendors—many of them Chinese. For the first time in the history of modern civilization most of the technologies needed for the military are driven by consumer demand and the potential for profit—not government directives. and Western company.

Technology

Technology China Government Artificial Inteligence

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But IMO it’ll take a “big bang” multi-party effort rather than an incremental innovation, so it’ll favor large organizations (big companies and/or governments) rather than startups. Government fiat. A couple conceivable scenarios that could bring us to the mobile payments promised land.

Mobile

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government

The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. In a business the aim is to earn more money than you spend.

Business Model

Business Model Revenue Channel Community

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder.

Java

Java PHP Software Review Coder

StartUpRoar

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

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

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

300 Teams in Two Years

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Eureka! National Science Foundation's I-Corps Trains a New Generation of Scientists in Business

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

How to Carry Out a Board Skills Audit in 4 Simple Steps

HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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