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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Newell ran the U.S.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tom Bedecarré , the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Jeff Decker , a Stanford researcher focusing on dual-use research. Jeff served in the U.S.

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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

Graduation day with classmate Joseph Helton (right), killed in action in Iraq in 2009. In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen.

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[Review] Loveworks

YoungUpstarts

Other examples cover the gamut of industries – there’s Cheerios and Pampers (FCMG), Reebok and Nike (sports apparel), Lenovo (technology), Ritz Carlton (hospitality), and Lexus (automotive), so no one’s really left out.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher. Jeff served in the U.S.

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The monkey on our back

deal architect

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently wrote in Foreign Policy magazine “As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point. Over the last 10.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. When the sponsors asked their team, “Can we use your slides to present to our organization?”) That’s a win for everyone.