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Hacking for Defense Turns Five
Originally published for USA ASC Army ALT Magazine by Michael Bold, contract support for Army ALT and writer-editor for Network Runners...
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Steve Blank: The Class That Changed How Entrepreneurship Is Taught
Originally published for Poets & Quants by Steve Blank, Adjunct Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University....
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Startup Offers Tool to Help Predict, Coordinate Action on Orbital Collisions
Originally published by Jacqueline Feldscher, Senior National Security Correspondent at Defense One. A multi-company pilot program will...
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Stellatus Solutions, a Startup Born at UChicago and Nurtured By Polsky, Acquired by Slingshot Aerospace to Help Prevent Satellite Collisions in Space
Originally published by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, associate director of media relations and external communications at the Polsky Center for...
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University Students Tackle DHS Challenges in Third Hacking for Homeland Security Course
Originally published by S&T, the research and development arm of DHS. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the...
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GW to Offer Hacking for Defense Course This Spring
The Department of Defense is partnered with the entrepreneurial course aimed at solving national security challenges. Originally...
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Stress Testing: How Added Customer Discovery Led A Budding Startup To Unexpected Growth
Originally published by BMNT ; authored by Ellen Chang For one military helicopter medevac Commander, on-the-job stress is an...
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In this popular Stanford class, students build tech for the military
As the Pentagon looks to Silicon Valley to help solve the U.S.’s biggest defense challenges, the Hacking for Defense class aims to mint a...
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Hacking For Defense planners look to expand beyond military problems
Originally published by Military Times ; authored by Leo Shane III For the last five years, Army veteran Alex Gallo and the Common...
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Innovation Needs Mission Driven Entrepreneurs
By France Hoang and Alex Gallo. In a world increasingly defined by strategic competition, many argue the next war will be deterred, won,...
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UC Santa Cruz Concludes First Semester of Hacking for Oceans
For more about the class problems and final presentations, please visit UCSC Costal Science and Policy. In Spring 2020, UC Santa Cruz...
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The Lean Innovation Educators Summit: Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic
Over 400 Educators share their experiences teaching Lean in the virtual environment. More than 400 educators from 100 universities across...
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Hacking for Oceans: Small is Beautiful
Rethinking supply chains to increase seafood traceability, using the Hacking 4 Environment: Oceans Lean Methodology Guest authored by Tom...
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The Lean Innovation Educators Summit: December 2020 White Paper
Build Back Better: Entrepreneurship Education and The Lean LaunchPad Methodology in a Post-COVID-19 Economy Dear Lean Innovation...
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Q&A with Alex Gallo: Common Mission Project
This month (April 2021) marks the fifth anniversary of the first Hacking For Defense (H4D) course at Stanford University. In this Q&A,...
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Q&A with H4D Alumnae Megan Lacy: Common Mission Project / H4D 5 Years On
This year (2021) marks the fifth anniversary of the first Hacking for Defense (H4D) course at Stanford University. In this LinkedIn Q&A,...
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The Battery That Could Change the World: Natrion is Paving the Way With Solid-State Ion Batteries
Young entrepreneurs are increasingly becoming catalysts for grand new ways of thinking. In the case of recent startup Natrion, an alum of...
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Introducing: The Common Mission Podcast Series
In the three years since Executive Director Alex Gallo founded the Common Mission Project, the positive impact to our partner...
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The Value of Getting out of the Classroom
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the chief executive officer of BMNT, Pete Newell, to discuss his vision for the future of...
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For Defense Innovation, the Future is Now
Originally published by RallyPoint; authored by Alex Gallo Much ink has been spilled and angsty activity has unfolded over the last 5-10...
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