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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. A special thanks to the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and Rich Carlin and the Office of Naval Research for supporting the program at Stanford and across the country as well Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

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Google Voice Alternatives You Should Try In 2020

YoungUpstarts

One of the pioneers of the VoIP industry, Skype was founded in 2003 and acquired by Microsoft in 2011 – a move that brought the service into homes and businesses around the world. Instead of using your Internet connection to send messages and make calls, Sideline relies on your carrier network. Skype vs Google Voice.

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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What does a Head of People do? Learning from Ada’s Chelsea MacDonald

Version One Ventures

Over the past few months, we have been running a series of posts where we profile one of the many incredible operators in our network. She was a data analyst and has been in People and leadership roles since 2011. Planned 2020 future salaries projections. Re-hashed salary bands for 2020.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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13 Israeli startups that received global recognition this week

VC Cafe

Below are the ‘winners’, who were recognised this past week: World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers 2020. Founded in 2011 by Amos Haggiag. Most-recent deal: $200M, 19 February 2020 K-Health – digital primary care symptom checker. This week saw several of them get global recognition.

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

Steve Blank

Out of MIT, Sumit joined the US Air Force as part of Cyber Command and was one of the first officers in network warfare. So that was my thesis when I left the Pentagon in 2011. There’s less of that happening in 2020.) He’s spent almost 20 years in the National Guard. Who has the right to defend?