Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S. and created a small website about China and Chinese products. and offerings of our products. Photo Credit: Renee Volpini.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.) New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. Existing technologies – can be described with an S-Curve.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

Companies like Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron design and make their own products (microprocessors and memory chips) in factories that they own. Construction on TSMC’s facility is planned to start in 2021, but actual chip production will not start until 2024. And why the world just got a lot more dangerous.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. After two decades of being a housewife, my husband returned from Iraq disabled, sparking a radical shift in our lifestyle. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Using analogies from evolution such as variation, selection and adaptation, Adapt uses far flung examples ranging from the Iraq War, Global Warming, 2007′s Financial Meltdown, to 3rd World Development efforts to prove its point. In a chapter “Conflict or: How Organizations Learn”, one learns how Iraq war heroes like H.R.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

We wanted them to learn what it takes to get their product/service deployed to the field, not just have another demo to a general. This meant that the minimal viable products the students built were focused on maximizing their learning of what to build, not just building prototypes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.) New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. Existing technologies – can be described with an S-Curve.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have customers, you don't yet have traction and sales, how are you going to judge it? You want a business that has the economic moats, the defensibility that it's going to sustain.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. We wanted them to learn what it takes to get their product/service deployed to the field, not give yet another demo to a general. Team: TrackID. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. Besides it being harder to get funding, it seems like this would be a good time to get cheap labor, rent, and product. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.)

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Rather, demonstrate through case studies or client stories how your products and services help your customers. Or that the US Army allows servicemen and women to blog freely (subject to security conditions) from the front lines of war zones like Iraq or Afghanistan? Show; Don’t Just Tell Avoid preaching or hardselling.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I don’t recall when I first met Raanan Bar-Cohen , SVP of business things at Automattic, but I do know we were already friends before traveling to Baghdad together in 2009, sharing an amazing week in Iraq. Unless that’s the way all Swiss appear at first.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? You want a business that has the economic modes, the defensibility that it's gonna sustain.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

The big companies are especially eager to recruit veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts who have returned home to extremely tough competition for jobs. The nation’s best truck driving schools are working with veterans who can use their GI benefits to pay for advanced driver’s training.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

We wanted them to learn what it takes to get their product/service deployed to the field, not just have another demo to a general. This meant that the minimal viable products the students built were focused on maximizing their learning of what to build, not just building prototypes.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) For example, we can cruise offshore of potential adversaries (Iraq and Syria) who can’t get to our carriers. You use “Lean” techniques to build Minimal Viable Products (MVPs). that’s pretty easy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

Their focus for this week was to figure out how to get products rapidly deployed into their sponsors organization. This week the teams were primarily trying to answer how products get from demo to deployment in their sponsors agency. They further refined their Minimal Viable Product to product/market fit in Slides 7 and 8.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Acting is inherently a type of freelance career, involving taking jobs with different studios and production companies. While studying journalism at NYU, Meg Ryan did some freelance “acting” in commercials for products like toothpaste and Campbell’s Soup in the early ’80s. troops in Iraq in 2004. Horatio Alger. Mitch Albom.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

They drew on a contest run by American spies in the wake of the Iraq debacle: Begun in 2011, it posed hundreds of geopolitical questions (“Will Saudi Arabia agree to OPEC production cuts in November 2014?” By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, which details the characteristics of people who are good at predicting the future.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

Their focus for this week was to figure out how to get products rapidly deployed into their sponsors organization. This week the teams were primarily trying to answer how products get from demo to deployment in their sponsors agency. They further refined their Minimal Viable Product to product/market fit in Slides 7 and 8.

San Diego 120

San Diego Lean Acquisition Iraq 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. This process also helps identify who the customers for possible solutions would be, who the internal stakeholders would be, and even what initial minimum viable products might look like.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Unlike businesses, government organizations don’t sell products, and they don’t earn revenue. Here’s Pete’s view of how you do it.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The name-in-a-sans-serif look says your company has nothing to prove and that you focus on product over promotion. Fine for online, but when a company is looking to brand the logo on promo products, they get annoyed that their shiny glass orb gets reduced to a dot. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The name-in-a-sans-serif look says your company has nothing to prove and that you focus on product over promotion. Fine for online, but when a company is looking to brand the logo on promo products, they get annoyed that their shiny glass orb gets reduced to a dot. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Almost half of its working-age population are unemployed, and the latest United Nations Human Development Index ranks Nepal at #144 out of 188 countries, coming in behind Cambodia (#143), Zambia (#139), and Iraq (#121). The water project is located at Mahendrajhadi VDC #8 Ward of Sindhuli province, which is an 8-hour “drive” from Kathmandu.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

That research is the building block to innovative products. Marine Corps veteran who served four tours in Iraq, including two tours as a platoon commander and two tours as a Special Assistant to Gen. Do people really want this product?” It’s the envy of the world. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. The US was once known as a free market democracy that could make the trains run on time. Each requires the step before it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2014

But with increasingly commoditized products and services, shrinking margins, and copycat competitors we need to look deeper. Previously Gabe served as a Captain in the Marine Corps for 8 years, spending 2 years between Iraq and Afghanistan operating on small, embedded advisor teams. What’s your competitive advantage?

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