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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. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise.

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Why Home Businesses Need Data Protection Plans

YoungUpstarts

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. Everyone involved in the business, whether it’s your uncle that does accounting, or your teenage kids that distribute surveys, needs to know how to protect your data. Review your Dynamic Plan.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. This team spoke with 10 more customers and potential channel partners. Week 6 of the class.

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Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus

Steve Blank

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. One upside is that you may now be able to get access to people who normally have a cloud of administrative gatekeepers around them. How can you test distribution/deployment? An MVP is an experiment.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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The End of Hyperscale Envy

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Why Tech Will Transform Tomorrow’s Construction Site

YoungUpstarts

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems. by Ramzi Jreidini , CEO of Handiss.

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