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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable).

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

Mrinal Menon is one of my Hacking for Defense students at Stanford where he’s currently in the MBA program. Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies.

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What the West needs to know about Russia’s tech scene

The Next Web

For many investors and entrepreneurs in the West, doing business in Russia can seem like a step into the unknown. With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia in numbers.

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

Steve Blank

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. By 1947 the U.S. Meanwhile the U.S.

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When National Security Falls Between the Cracks

Steve Blank

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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