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

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance.

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How Data Analytics Influences (and Can Better Influence) Your Business

YoungUpstarts

No matter how many times companies and governments get in trouble for using people’s data to their advantage, (Can anyone say Facebook and Russia?), Finally, software engineers use data analytics to determine program demand, which helps them stay on top of this highly competitive field. Think about it.

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

Steve Blank

Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). In mid-October, oDesk held a programming contest for freelancers registered on the platform. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And that has happened to us.

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First prototype, Design and UI — Mobile Game Development Guide #2

Austin Startup

The game takes place in a fictional world of anthropomorphic animals in a frigid country much like Russia controlled by a fascist Leader by the name Big Pig. If you have any comments or suggestions about these challenges, please do not hesitate to write a comment :) User Interface Art design and main menu is ready.

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Tomorrow on TNW: Your chance to ask Ciplex founder Ilya Pozin your entrepreneurship questions

The Next Web

As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council ’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Ilya will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, May 9th. Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor.