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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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

Steve Blank

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. F-117 Nighthawk - 1st Stealth Ground Attack Plane These changes in American defense policy spooked the Soviets.

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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." Now for the feedback. Expo SF (May.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Flashy demo days are great theater, but it’s not clear there’s a correlation between giving a great PowerPoint presentation and a two minute demo and building a successful business model. Lessons Learned.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

In my first company, people liked our product but were embarrassed to share it because the design and presentation was so poor. You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! Not Embracing Agility. "If Hiring Poorly. Guarding The "Big Idea".

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