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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.