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Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Steve Blank

Ukraine’s military is not burdened with the DoD’s 65-year-old acquisition process and 20th-century operational concepts. Worse, China will learn from and apply the lessons from Russia’s failures in the Ukraine at an ever increasing pace. Reorganize DoD Acquisition and Sustainment. It is learning and adapting on the fly.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. ” Team 3: Acquisition. Jason Kim : “ This course doesn’t just discuss U.S. national security issues. Original Problem Statement: How can the U.S.

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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

Julia Kravchenko is a partner and a VP of HR in Qubit Labs , an innovative software development company with offices in Tallinn, Estonia and Kyiv, Ukraine. So, keep calm and enjoy it! Diplomas in Psychology and HR and 10+ years of experience make her one of the top specialists in the field.

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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Steve Blank

The speed, depth and breadth of these disruptive changes happen faster than the responsiveness and agility of our current acquisition systems and defense-industrial base. Even today, the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine rapidly delivers weapons. They rarely make permanent change at the DoD.

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What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

Why this acquisition? Facebook is no longer the innovative, nimble startup it once was, and needs to acquire to stay relevant – see the post on Google’s recent acquisition of Nest. If this acquisition, cited as the largest venture backed exit ever, doesn’t change that view, I’m not sure what will.

India 107
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels. These acquisition and procurement “silos” of excellence are virtually impenetrable by new ideas and requirements. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. I’m trying to be optimistic. David Zhang.

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