This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2010

The Apple iTablet has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is being dropped by warplanes. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Ingredients of The Apple iTablet include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. Do not taunt The Apple iTablet.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise. Both share an exceptional way of dreaming and executing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

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.). that’s pretty easy. For example, we can cruise offshore of potential adversaries (Iraq and Syria) who can’t get to our carriers.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

#Autonomy #Drones #FlyingCars #Robots Craig Cummings is an Army intelligence Veteran turned serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

He was forced in to an internal exile to Groky (Nizhnij Novgorod) – a major industrial city closed to foreigners – about 300 mi east of Moscow in 1980 following his public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was allowed to return to Moscow in Feb 1987 – AFTER Reykjavik. (I

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