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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. interviews (a national H4D class record.)

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. I said, “well for me you’d have to add coming from a dysfunctional family.”

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. Every single thing we do is meant to have an impact in the company. We don’t waste time building decks just meant to satisfy or convince someone. And we decisions don’t take days or months to be made.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So yeah, so now we've got New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, LA, Miami, Washington, San Antonio, Dallas County, San Francisco. Massachusetts is rapidly moving as well. Eric Ries : Yeah. All those localities have something in common. Or the UK government. Jeremy Howard : Yeah.