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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Lessons Learned.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Steve Blank

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. What is the timeline to ROI and the amount of risk we are willing to assume? We’ll cover “ corporate moonshots ” in a subsequent post.).

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Do they perceive enough value to pay prices that create for you a profit margin that matches your business model? Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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Announcing K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed stage fund

K9 Ventures

The fund focuses on investing in companies that meet the following necessary but not sufficient criteria: Technical Founders : The founding team needs to be capable of building its own product and have the technical chops to make it happen. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. Great for visualizing work of product development. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.