Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

And that the Lean Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption and create continuous innovation for large commercial organizations were equally relevant here. For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) But using Lean Innovation they’ll fail quickly and cheaply.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

He was forced in to an internal exile to Groky (Nizhnij Novgorod) – a major industrial city closed to foreigners – about 300 mi east of Moscow in 1980 following his public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was allowed to return to Moscow in Feb 1987 – AFTER Reykjavik. (I

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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.

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