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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

One of the ways our adversaries try to gain the advantage is by attacking our supply chain through methods like fraud, introduction of counterfeit materials, control of raw materials, cyber and intellectual property attacks, denying access to strategic materials and rare earth minerals.

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. So what can organizations do?

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Look out China, we’ll advise you into submission! Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game. For both indicators we rank better than ‘entrepreneurial-friendly’ USA.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

History tells us that late adopters fall by the wayside as more agile and opportunistic governments master new technologies. None of these companies own a chip manufacturing plant (a fab) so they all use a foundry (an independent company that makes chips for others) like TSMC in Taiwan (or SMIC in China for for its defense related silicon.).

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. Sourcing in China.