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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

When I first started teaching customer development (searching, validating and executing a business model), one of my students pointed out that customer development was similar to the theory of a military strategist, John Boyd. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S.

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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

Part 1 talked about what I saw and learned – the layout of a carrier, how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions in context of the other ships around it (the strike group.) For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) that’s pretty easy.

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Your New Competitive Advantage (It’s Not What You Think)

Duct Tape Marketing

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. One Simple Tactic That Can Give You an Unfair Advantage in Local Search Showing up in local search results is a pretty big.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks I looked up where UCSF was and searched around for one of the restaurants we would know. And so we get to piggyback off of their 501-C3 status and they manage the actual financial operations.