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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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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

After returning from a deployment to Afghanistan with the Navy Reserves, I wanted to shift gears and build a meaningful organization deeply rooted in national service. When I came up with the name the business was more hobby than anything, but now it’s a full service, professional, incorporate business. 5) Great Efforts Happening.

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

Steve Blank

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) For example, missions into Afghanistan are 6-8 hours versus normal mission times of 2-3 hours.). Horizon 3 is focused on searching for and creating brand new missions. ( that’s pretty easy. Horizon 1 is the Navy’s core mission.

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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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Customer Experiences Go Viral on Social Media Platforms

Duct Tape Marketing

According to a post that went viral on Facebook, a little girl’s father was in Afghanistan and ordered a bouquet that came with a necklace for his daughter to be delivered on Valentine’s Day. When the flowers were delivered, a necklace was not included. If You Liked This Post.

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Rebuild Lives #Ukraine/ Provide Work Opportunities to Refugees

Transformify

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

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[Review] Content Rules

YoungUpstarts

Create Wings and Roots Ground your content in your own point of view, but ensure that it is findable (tap Search Engine Optimisation or SEO to boost search rankings), accessible (mobile friendly), and shareable on social networks. You should also set up a listening dashboard and respond quickly and sincerely to your community.

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