YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. To market to Muslims, companies could take note of the holy month of the Ramadan, offer halal products, develop shariah-compliant Islamic financial services, or create mobile apps.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000. J: One that sticks out for me was from my time in Afghanistan. And before we started with any of the development work, we talked to some friends of ours in the food business.

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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. Filed under: Hacking For Defense.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Then, and only then, can they move on to developing a detailed value proposition canvas for each of the beneficiaries. They developed their first high-level view (slide 5) of how an analyst does his job. This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Then, and only then, can they move on to developing a detailed value proposition canvas for each of the beneficiaries. They developed their first high-level view (slide 5) of how an analyst does his job. This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand.

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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. Filed under: Hacking For Defense.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

By the end of the 20 th century the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) realized that it was no longer the technology leader it had been when it developed the U-2, SR-71, and CORONA reconnaissance programs in the 1950’s and 1960’s. When we developed our Hacking for Defense class, we created a ton of course materials (syllabus, slides, videos).

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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. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Team: Panacea.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. corporations.).

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

For example, we tell the story of Cedric King, who experienced major internal injuries, permanent loss to part of his right arm and hand, and the amputation of both legs in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device explosion tore through his body in 2012. Having a clear strategy defines how we are going to achieve our vision.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The top right shows the civilian-military dialog that gives the military direction for the development and execution of military plans. military responsible for developing our military’s strategies and plans for conducting future wars. We would be developing those Plans in isolation because it was us against one adversary or another.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2015

About Tim Graczewski: Tim Graczewski is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Creditera. He also held various strategic alliances and corporate development roles at Oracle Corporation. Click here to register ».

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

By the end of the 20 th century the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) realized that it was no longer the technology leader it had been when it developed the U-2, SR-71, and CORONA reconnaissance programs in the 1950’s and 1960’s. When we developed our Hacking for Defense class, we created a ton of course materials (syllabus, slides, videos).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2015

Since nothing existed on the market, I developed wootrader.com – the term Woo is used in Chinese to designate the village shamans/magicians and it seemed an appropriate association, as the rankings provided by wootrader are often perceived as ‘miraculous’ Thanks to Atanas Stoyanov, Woo Trader ! 5) Great Efforts Happening.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 30, 2013

So right now is the PERFECT time to take an honest look at your business, see how much progress you''ve made so far this year, and develop your plan for the rest of 2013. In particular, the segment detailing the lives of most girls in Afghanistan left me crying. That''s right, the year is already half-way over.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 2, 2012

This line of thinking has important implications for policy in the middle east and Afghanistan, and even for Europe where the key institutions need time to develop legitimacy. It takes time to build trust, and the more trust there is the less that cronyism, corruption and other forms of abuse are tolerated.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? We learned a lot developing the Hacking for Defense class, and even more as we taught it and worked with the problem sponsors in the DOD/Intel community.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) The problem is that First World countries have developed formidable surface-to-air missiles – the Russian S–300 and S-400 and the Chinese HQ-9 – which have become extremely effective at shooting down aircraft.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? We learned a lot developing the Hacking for Defense class, and even more as we taught it and worked with the problem sponsors in the DOD/Intel community.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Just like any commercial software, it’s got to be a continuous development cycle. Continuous Integration, Continuous Development, Continuous Delivery. The first time you use it in Afghanistan you realize you never trained it against data that had women wearing full-length black burkas, it didn’t know what those were.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Martha deployed six times to the Middle East and Afghanistan, flying 325 combat hours in the A-10 attack plane, earning the Bronze Star and six air medals. Martha deploys six times to the Middle East and Afghanistan flying 325 combat hours in the A 10 attack plane ironing the Bronze Star and six air medals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2014

According to Wikipedia: “Competitive advantage occurs when an organization acquires or develops an attribute or combination of attributes that allows it to outperform its competitors.”. Businesses that figure this out will develop a significant competitive advantage in their market. How many do you actually end up using successfully?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2012

Heidi founded a nonprofit to remove landmines and help Afghan farmers tap into the market by teaching new, higher-value agricultural practices; Kyleigh created a for-profit business called Twenty Four Suns to help local artisans in Afghanistan by creating a market for them in the US. Kiva.org is a good example.

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Transformify

MARCH 3, 2022

Back in 2016, when Transformify developed Rebuild Lives, we sincerely hoped that humanity would never face a devastating refugee crisis again. First, it was the refugee crisis in Afghanistan when hundreds of thousands of people fled Afghanistan in fear of the Taliban regime. Yet, reality proved us wrong more than once.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. My interest was to get Stanford students engaged in national service and exposed to parts of the U.S.

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Small Business Force

MAY 21, 2017

And finally, just last week they charged a returning serviceman from Afghanistan $200 because his checked duffel bag was overweight. ” Hopefully, with the five customer service lessons we’ve taken from them, it can you to better develop and maintain your customer relationships. "The Come fly the friendly skies?

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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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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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey.

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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. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

.” And it doesn’t really have a lot of deep [inaudible] into what are the longterm ramifications of that because the people that are doing the science experiments are the people that are funding the development of the drugs. John Jantsch: So you want to share a couple of the stories about who we’ll meet in the Portal?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Developing a content editorial calendar, complete with suggested frequencies of different content formats and types. 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? Creating customer success stories.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2010

The summit is the follow up to Obama’s Cairo speech last summer and looks to use entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship, as major tools in increasing development throughout the Muslim world. Here is the official summit page and here is the official White House Press Briefing. BTW, it appears you can stream it live as well.

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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. His in-depth talks on personal development were ahead of their time, and my company incorporates both of our core values ??and

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And she just lays out in very, very dispassionate and analytical tones what is happening with situations, as she calls them and how situations develop and what the outcomes and actions you can take as a situation develops. She's just such a clear headed thinker about these things. And it was a really fascinating read at the time.

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