Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

They're hard to forget your last name. But then when I was eight or nine years old, the Gulf Warhead, I was born in Kuwait and security had lapsed, came together to rescue the country. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. What is community?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. You can change your name if you want to be called something else in the app. Below your name (and that of others) is a number and it took me for freaking ever to figure out WTF this was.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. My family's name isn't on any buildings and they didn't have the money to fund my investments, so I felt like I didn't have help to break into my industry. And, of course, it was cool having a strong military.

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