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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. Several will join the new Stanford Gordian Knot Center which is focused on the intersection of policy, operational concepts, and technology.

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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. While Stanford does a formal survey of student reviews of the class, this year we wanted more granular data on how remote learning affected their class experience.

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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. What does SBIR Phase I mean, exactly? At Spark Collider, there were 100 companies present that received an initial award from the Department of Defense (DoD)— which denotes them as Phase 1 SBIR Awardees.

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