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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. But that was two full years before any customers were allowed to use it. Stealth is a customer-free zone. We can capitalize on new customers. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Great post!!!

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

At the heart of this “offset strategy” was “precision strike,” – building stealth aircraft to deliver precision guided munitions unseen by enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. It developed a ten-line short form that listed the most important parts of the requirement.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

He was constantly looking at the multiple lines on the ALR-20 display and could see the Soviet radar order of battle: ground to air communications, what radars were around (search, acquisition, tracking, etc.), Reply Don Cook , on September 24, 2010 at 1:34 am Said: I also was a ECM troop in the early 80′s. Reply Ben C. ,