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You’re reading a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: T...
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This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean Lau...
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This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the second of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean La...
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This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship...
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We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radic...
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Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, by Eric Ries. Every once in a while a b...
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We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense...
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This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief. For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber...
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This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX) This is the 16th year we’ve been tea...
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Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discove...
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Join us at The 7th Annual Red Queen Conference April 22 -23 – Silicon Valley How do Portfolio Acquisition Executives ...
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Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of y...
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What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in P...
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When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. L...
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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something n...
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This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the peop...
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TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW...
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Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and...
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I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing...
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The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2. The Department of War (DoW) is one of the world’s largest organizations. ...