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Salto - Bringing DevOps to Cloud App Configuration

Cracking the Code

The answer is the cloud. As cloud computing and applications have become more prevalent in every size and type of company, configuring these applications remains a pain point that business operations and IT departments know all too well. You might well ask: why is this more of a problem today than it was a few years ago? Enter Salto.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

Prior to the JAIC General Shanahan ran Project Maven, an unintentional dry-run for how the DOD and commercial companies could partner (or not) to build AI-enabled apps. Maven partnered with Google to build a computer vision tool for imagery analysts to automatically detect objects/targets. We started with a cross-functional team.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

So while others can run the JEDI cloud for the DOD, nobody owns running application services for the DOD. And the JAIC can’t run them because we’re not an operational software organization. So you have to find that partner that has a belief in solving a problem. Joint Common Foundation. I want you to come into that.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. These end up being words that often minimize the value of a partner's work.

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That Was A Yes Or No Question

Feld Thoughts

My partner in my first company (Dave Jilk – now the CEO of Standing Cloud ) used to have an endearing way of dealing with this. The person responded with a five minute explanation with a lot of details, all factually correct and contextually relevant, but at the end still didn’t answer the question.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

One of our software engineers wrote all the code. My partner Dave Jilk, also a full-stack programmer (and a much better one than me), helped immensely as he completely grokked relational database theory. I’d dress up in a suit and go with the management consultants to the client and participate in meetings.)

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. Noble Child’s cloud-based applications help systematically take on the growing foster care crisis caused by the opioid epidemic. I cannot wait to see what 2019 brings. .