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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. There is demand to apply the problem-solving methodology to a range of public sector organizations where success is measured by impact and mission achievement versus revenue and profit.

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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. There is demand to apply the problem-solving methodology to a range of public sector organizations where success is measured by impact and mission achievement versus revenue and profit.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. And then you read one years later called Team of Teams, and it was about how as the US went into Afghanistan to go fight, they started in a very command and control, information efficient organization. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people.