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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent.

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link]. 40+ Best Web UI Interface Framework Kits – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link].

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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. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with people responsible for legal, support, contracting, policy, and finance.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup. I was lucky to be one of the very early people at Immersion and met Steve when he came on as one of our first board members. Present at the Creation.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. One can, however, make these arguments about different frameworks. and Drupal – which are often confused for frameworks.

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

Steve Blank

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. if you can’t see the video above click here. We’re offering one again this January here.

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