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Giving Tuesday: Five Ways to Engage Your Board

Board Effect

Giving Tuesday was created when the 92 nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation came together in October 2012 to get the “giving season” off to a good start. The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts.

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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan.

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. In 2012, Rep. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation in 2012 to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) Worth your time to watch.

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Surprising Surge In Attack Traffic From Indonesia This Year: Akamai

YoungUpstarts

in Oman to 122% in Iraq. Data collected by Ericsson indicates that the volume of mobile data traffic doubled from the first quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013, and grew 19 percent between the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013. Mbps (up from 2.9 Global average peak connection speeds increased 9.2%

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

defense and consumer electronics industries will be set back at least five years — and because China has its own advanced chip foundries, it could become the world leader in technology for the next decade or more. In 2012, a bipartisan committee of the U.S. Without them, the U.S. Here’s why. And how they may do it. Background.

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