Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

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. Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Stay tuned. He runs H4X Labs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Student Feedback.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. I bumped into the lesson thanks to their NFL sponsorship.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this is largely due to our institutional structures, but, while we can’t tell you how to topple the institution, we can give some tips on how to play the game, get ahead, and get funded. This is something that, again, may not be controllable due to institutional structures at play.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

Somewhat to their surprise, the tech section is one of the highly-trafficked and well-read topics. PureWow offers content on categories like recipes, books, home decor, and gardening, but tech remains one of the strongest. For example, consider PureWow, a general lifestyle content site focused on women over 30.

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