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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. While You Were Out. military strengths.

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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

With Asia’s share of global research and development forecast to grow to 40% this year, the quest to drive innovation is at the forefront of conversation among business leaders and entrepreneurs in the region. You need to remain at the forefront of such developments to avoid being commoditized or being made irrelevant. -

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

The top right shows the civilian-military dialog that gives the military direction for the development and execution of military plans. military responsible for developing our military’s strategies and plans for conducting future wars. We would be developing those Plans in isolation because it was us against one adversary or another.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. As a developer, the features we dropped seem like a necessity from day 1. So we tossed it.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Virtually every mobile payments system in the developed world (see note #3) just piggybacks off the credit card system. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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