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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. same thing as growth hacker or growth marketer): “The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

But what you may not know is that Nguyen actually designed the first user interface for the Color app. For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work.