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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

Great technical teams like Fishreel often want to use the class as a product incubator when we want them to spend an equal amount of time learning about the rest of the Mission Model canvas. This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. That’s a win for everyone.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

Great technical teams like Fishreel often want to use the class as a product incubator when we want them to spend an equal amount of time learning about the rest of the Mission Model canvas. This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. That’s a win for everyone.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.)

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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter

Steve Blank

New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.)

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) Newell ran the U.S. it is a process from start to deployment. Problem 6: How to get started?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.