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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. Alex Miroshnichenko , on February 4, 2010 at 6:21 pm Said: Well, funny how myths are created.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

In Mexico’s 2015 elections , citizens’ responses to the governing party ads were often recorded without their knowledge. Back in 2010, Ariely and Berns cautioned that the profit motive may incentivize companies to misuse neuromarketing—encouraging them to try to cross from persuasion to manipulation. These aren’t hypothetical concerns.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. The offset strategy was smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth using silicon chips, electronics and computers that only the U.S. —– But first some history… World War II.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Skip the next section if you’re a history major.) Meanwhile the U.S.

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Twitter Link Roundup #36 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

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2010 Fortune 500: The top 10 most valuable corporate logo properties – [link]. Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? Government releases open source code – [link]. How To Create Outstanding Modern Infographics – [link]. The Evolution of Big-Name Logos – [link]. – [link].