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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Stay tuned. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. He runs H4X Labs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Team: IntelliSense.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. That drives every decision we make.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. And a very small percentage are focused on innovation.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. Steve Seitz.