Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Wondering how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. Our first Hacking for Diplomacy class ended this month. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. — — — — In this second segment, Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino talk about how they brought the Lean Startup to Japan. — Or, click on the links below to hear Matt discuss.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In peacetime the U.S. In World War II the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Our goal was to scale these classes across the US giving students the opportunity to perform national service by getting solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. Our first Hacking for Diplomacy class ended this month. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” But by week 5, (this week) the teams have either embraced the Lean process or we’re not going to get through to them. First and foremost, it is experiential and hands-on. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

And that the Lean Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption and create continuous innovation for large commercial organizations were equally relevant here. For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) But using Lean Innovation they’ll fail quickly and cheaply.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” But by week 5, (this week) the teams have either embraced the Lean process or we’re not going to get through to them. First and foremost, it is experiential and hands-on. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In 1991 we went to war in Desert Storm to evict Iraq out of Kuwait. Iraq was also launching Scud missiles and we used Strategic Missile warning capabilities that we have (in space) to detect ICBMs, and we used them to be able to give warning of these smaller rockets. Desert Storm and Space. And that really was the first space war.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Each requires the step before it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

So now when I'm building startups, I'm really shrewd and very lean and I can build things very quickly and I'm very resourceful. (15:01): And then you can go further back and just say, listen, I was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and I came to the UK in London when I was three years old with my family to escape the war and all of that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

So now when I'm building startups, I'm really shrewd and very lean and I can build things very quickly and I'm very resourceful. (12:46): And then you can go further back and just say, listen, I was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and I came to the UK and London when I was three years old with my family to escape the war and all of that.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. I-Corps uses Lean Startup methods to teach scientists how to turn their discoveries into entrepreneurial, job-producing businesses. The Congressman From Science and Innovation. In 2012, Rep.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Lean methodologies have changed the way science is commercialized in the U.S. government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. How the U.S. That research is the building block to innovative products.

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