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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

If you are interested in hardware innovation, you want to be in Asia. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. There are many services for which California is a good starting point (e.g. Hardware is not made here anymore.

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What it’s like to found a startup in Estonia

The Next Web

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. In California, you are admired, rather than shamed, for your failure. You’ll also find a much more committed mindset in Estonia than you will in California.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

But I had an hour to kill before lunch and I was on California Street in Palo Alto. I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect.

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Five Questions with: Douglas McGray, Editor-in-Chief of California Sunday Magazine

Hunter Walker

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Asia will become 50% urban in next 15 years.

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[Event][Singapore] 2015 Battlehack

YoungUpstarts

The 2015 BattleHack series will culminate in the World Finals in San Jose, California in November, and the Singapore winner will be flown to the finals at PayPal’s headquarters in Silicon Valley to battle it out with teams from 14 cities around the world for the US$100,000 grand prize and a “battle axe” trophy.

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