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

Steve Blank

Acquisition, technology, and logistics. In some of our class sessions you’ve heard about how acquisition in the Department of Defense hasn’t kept up with new threats, adversaries, and new technologies. But Will Roper who runs Air Force acquisition, technology and logistics, gives lie to that assertion. The future is predictable.

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. – [link].

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The End of Hyperscale Envy

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Stay agile so you can respond intelligently to your company’s needs. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth. In fact, expanding too quickly can be just as dangerous as not growing at all.

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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 Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.]

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Lessons Learned.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. Our Investment in Cloze. June 25, 2012.

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