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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link. Shocking, I know.

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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. It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) developed a new strategy in the late 1970’s to counter the Warsaw Pact. The offset strategy was smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth using silicon chips, electronics and computers that only the U.S.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Reply Nelson A.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

Pay attention to whether people are comfortable “naming names&# in the meeting. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Why didn’t our tests/QA/immune system catch and prevent the problem?

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. How delightful it would be to have a presidential candidate named Frost. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. These technologies which allowed the U.S. Very few of us do.