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Your cloud data needs a reality check: our investment in Cyera

Cracking the Code

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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6 Reasons Startups Should Skip the Big-Bang Launch

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. Maximum agility for required pivots. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Time to train and prepare staff to deal with customers.

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Technology, Innovation and Modern War – Class 6 – Will Roper

Steve Blank

And because you were annexed from your competitor, you could develop that technology, instantiate it in your military and field it for advantage, really doesn’t make a lot of sense in this decade and in this century. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile. You need to be exceptionally fast and agile.

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. 15 Useful Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers – [link].

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea. What a great post.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." Use some customer development to find out.

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