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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. How would customer interviews work via video? See here for an extended discussion of remote customer discovery.).

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Learn2Win. Team: Deepfakes.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. What Kathryn is bringing to the table is a community atmosphere for people who usually don’t quite fit the mold,” said Brooks. “It

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We invest in companies that sell to both enterprise/SMB customers as well as direct to consumers. Utilizing cultural, financial, and intellectual capital, Breaux & Company helps influential brands rethink Diversity and Inclusion challenges and assists while launching new companies that solve problems for communities of color.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.