Design Lean Russia 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 5, 2023
And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. If you can’t see the presentation click here.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And now that we have those structures built and we have the staffs designed, almost all those trades are done.
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. A corporation, by contrast, is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable, scalable business model. This suggests a further modification to Lean Startup: Get Upstairs in the Building.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. — Why This Course? One couldn’t hope for a better set of co-instructors. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 6, 2012
Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. Now is the time to think Lean.
Steve Blank
MARCH 28, 2009
Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down. I was always kind of curious.
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