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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

We just held our sixteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Agility Is The Key To Survival In Good Times And Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone conversations, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. If you as an entrepreneur are not “listening” to your online reviews, and not moving quickly to make changes, you are losing ground.

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7 Principles Of Business Agility To Dodge Disaster

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone conversations, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. If you as an entrepreneur are not “listening” to your online reviews, and not moving quickly to make changes, you are losing ground.

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Eric Ries and Kent Beck Discuss Product Development

Startup Lessons Learned

We’ve made some cool additions to our pre-conference webcast lineup , including two conversations with founding figures for methods that underlie Lean Startup. I interrupted them and gave them “the spiel: about TDD. Third, I needed to take small steps—one conversation where I really shared, one part of a presentation.

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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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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. In fact, the small brand is likely to become a rising industry star due to the established trust, convenient delivery times, and various payment options available in the marketplace. These new technologies will become an integral part of most e-shops.

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

While Silicon Valley remains a hub of technological innovation, it is not the only hi-tech enclave where big ideas are brought to the fore in the commercial arena. Intezer.com is another award-winning technology company focused on Genetic Malware Analysis. Intezer.com. oz-code.com.

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