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Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones – P.S. You’re Fired

Steve Blank

Update : After this article was written the Secretary of Defense fired every member of all 40+ defense advisory boards and will start anew. Hopefully the suggestions in this post will help inform how they reconstitute the boards.). But the review needs to go much further than that. What’s an Advisory Board?

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IoT: Bridging the Performance Promise Gap – Female Founder Series

The Startup Magazine

Her premise is that technology has been a great disruptor – and no area more so than the launch of the Internet of Things. She is a strong STEM advocate and an active member of the advisory board for CompTIA ’s Advisory Council. IoT is all about the data and the insights it can provide. The Power of Open Data.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

In this final post, I’ll review the foundational building blocks that all companies must continuously measure, refine and optimize if they are to avoid hitting the rocks where so many other startups meet their ruin. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture. Team Architecture. Structuring Your Startup for Success. .

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

In this final post, I’ll review the foundational building blocks that all companies must continuously measure, refine and optimize if they are to avoid hitting the rocks where so many other startups meet their ruin. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture. Team Architecture. Structuring Your Startup for Success. .

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Role of a Mentor in Their Business

Hearpreneur

And while he doesn’t technically work for the rest of my business, I feel like he does through me. Thanks to Leigh McAlpin, Classic Architectural Group ! . #13- We have a handful of trusted mentors we utilize sort of like an advisory board. Thanks to Chris Campbell, Review Trackers ! #22- 7- Provides motivation.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. I have detected a secret virus in your CPU.