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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. One that is no longer tied to large 20th-century industrial systems, but to a 21st-century software-centric agile world. Time is not on our side in the South China Sea.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

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. So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Not automating this process creates the ongoing repetitive work that computers are designed to handle. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. I've had the best results hiring VA's in the Philippines. It's a similar process when finding a designer, developer, or any outsourcing partner. Iteration vs. Automation.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

But the reason M-Pesa initially took off (and similar systems in the Philippines and elsewhere) is in developing economies prepaid mobile minutes are inherently a store of value parallel to the local currency.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. What I do like is the coming up with the idea and mapping out the development part. I love your posts Derek, you really GIVE. Insightful.