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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Are we using modern and secure third-party libraries? They look at the code produced on a regular basis to ensure that it’s high quality and right for you. Specifically, they pay attention to: Is our code scalable and extensible? Do you have access to and ownership of the source code?

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9 Effective Strategies To Upscale Your Business 

The Startup Magazine

Although it may require stepping away from the security of well-organized projections and plans, taking calculated risks can lead to corporate development. Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success.

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

Steve Blank

We just held our sixteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. leading a multi-billion dollar business with a broad range of products and services supporting defense, homeland security, aerospace, infrastructure protection, and customers around the world.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense has teams of students working to understand and solve national security problems. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats.

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CX Trends That Can Help StartUps In 2022

The Startup Magazine

Customer experience (CX) approaches in particular have had to develop and evolve rapidly over the last year – something which has benefitted startups and small enterprises who are able to move with agility to shift and flex to changing customer attitudes and expectations.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

In hindsight the damage wasn’t the result of what the United States was doing, but over the Pentagon’s inability and unwillingness to own up to why it was doing it: After the intelligence failure of 9/11, security agencies overcompensated by widespread, warrantless datamining as well as electronic and telephonic surveillance, including on U.S.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. The result is that legacy systems live on as an albatross and an impediment to making the country safer and more secure.