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.

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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

JULY 19, 2017

We combined the Lean Startup methodology – used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science – with the rapid problem sourcing and solution methodology Pete developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq when he ran the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The Congressman From Science and Innovation.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

SBDC advisors can help brainstorm strategies and address problem areas, like how to lean up your manufacturing processes. Mississippi State University helps process the data each year and organizes the results for the ASBDC. They also tend to last longer than the average startup, or experience greater survivability.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2013

In the summer of 2008 the entire Upper Mississippi River Basin flooded and inundated ten square miles of Cedar Rapids, including the entire downtown of this community of about 100,000. And, we need sturdy things that we can lean on when we’re unsure. Surprised? I mean you heard about Katrina and Sandy, but Cedar Rapids?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

By contrast, Stuart grew up working in his father’s law office in the Mississippi Delta. That made our first winter in the shop very lean, but we made it through,” he says. We have leaned on LivePlan since we were a cart,” Stuart explains. We needed more working capital when we started, but didn’t have it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. While the sharp end of the stick were the pilot and/or crew, each of these systems required a cadre of technicians to maintain and repair the equipment.

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