Quantum Computing – An Update

How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It

What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This.

How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices

Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups

Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It

Lean LaunchPad @Stanford 2024 – 8 Teams In, 8 Companies Out

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Gordon Bell R.I.P.

Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid

The Secret History of Polaroid CEO Edwin Land

Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

Is a $100 Million Enough?

Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1

Profound Beliefs

Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster

Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Be Where Your Business Is

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up

Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit

The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education & Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption

The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation

A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale

Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry

National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders

What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center

The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained

The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Wrap Up

I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind

The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

When There Seems to Be No Way Out – Customer Discovery for Your Head

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3 – Russia

Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 2

Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition

Lead and Disrupt

Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

You Don’t Need Permission

Your Product is Not Their Problem

These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

E Pluribus Unum – A Rallying Cry for National Service

Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do?

Hacking for Allies

When National Security Falls Between the Cracks

Regaining America’s Technological Edge: Build a Civil-Military Alliance

Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones – P.S. You’re Fired

Lessons for the New Administration – Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Wrap Up

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 18 – General James Mattis

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

The Rapture Happened but I Wasn’t Called

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 13 – ONR– Rear Admiral Lorin Selby

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 9 – Autonomy – Maynard Holliday

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2 – Max Boot

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 - Ash Carter

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Hacking 4 Recovery – Time to Take A Shot

Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic

Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets and Customers

The Coming Chip Wars

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct

Seven Steps to Small Business Recovery

What’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human

In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus

The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Action Today for CFO’s

You’re Not Important to Me but I Want To Meet With You

How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Clayton Christensen

Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

How to Convince Investors You’re the Future not the Past

Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Who Ever Thought? The Lean Educators Summit

AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back Into Agile

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Fast Time in Three Horizon High

How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows

Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

What Your Startup Needs to Know About Regulated Markets

The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

This 1 Piece of Advice Could Make Or Break Your Career

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups

Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Leadership is More Than a Memo

CoinOut Gets Coin In

Innovation at Speed – when you have 2 million employees

Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Removing the Roadblocks to Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Working Outside the Tech Bubble

National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Why good people leave large tech companies

Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”

Tesla Lost $700 Million Last Year, So Why Is Tesla’s Valuation $60 Billion?

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Why Some Startups Win

The No Excuses Culture

Don’t let process distract you from finding the strategy

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

The Innovation Insurgency Gets Educated: Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy, Development

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

What the Harvard Business Review and The People’s Daily think about leadership succession

Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture

Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns

The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company

The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Working Hard is not the same as working smart

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 1 of 2)

Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 5

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 2

Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 1

What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Learning Through Reflection

The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Blank’s Rule – To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy

How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation

Hacking a Corporate Culture: Stories, Heroes and Rituals in Startups and Companies

Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance

The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

How One Startup Figured Out What Could Really Help Deaf People

Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Getting to “Yes” for Corporate Innovation

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Life Science Startups Rising in the UK

What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle

When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

It’s About Women Running Startups

Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine

The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Why Corporate Skunk Works Need to Die

Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

Watching My Students Grow

Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

The Woodstock of K-12 Education

How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Why Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same

How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle

Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development

Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

The Path of Our Lives

How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Hostages Strapped to the Tank: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 2

Farming for Developers: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 1

Three Things I Learned on Commencement Day

Innovating Municipal Government Culture

New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes

Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

If I Told You I’d Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley”

SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at Work

SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone’s Job

SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

SuperMac War Story 1: Joining SuperMac

There’s a Pattern Here

Out of the Ashes – Something Isn’t Quite Right

The Product Development Model

Retirement and Redemption

You’re Just the Founder

Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2

The Seven Days of Christmas

The End of Innocence

He’s Only in Field Service

Epitaph for an Entrepreneur

Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby

Gravity Will be Turned Off

When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review

Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps