Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In 1991 we went to war in Desert Storm to evict Iraq out of Kuwait. Iraq was also launching Scud missiles and we used Strategic Missile warning capabilities that we have (in space) to detect ICBMs, and we used them to be able to give warning of these smaller rockets. Desert Storm and Space. And that really was the first space war.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeff Decker , a Stanford researcher focusing on dual-use research.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

The speed, depth and breadth of these disruptive changes happen faster than the responsiveness and agility of our current acquisition systems and defense-industrial base. In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea. Jeff served in the U.S.

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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.

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