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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S. America’s adversaries understand this.

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

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. “…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”. The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland.

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Five Reasons Every CEO Should Give Back On Giving Tuesday And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

It serves as a reminder to look beyond or ourselves and invest in the interest of those in our community. It’s a day where people around the world join in and help charitable organizations in their community. Giving to charities helps change lives and makes your community and the world a better place. To learn lessons.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. But an equally obvious case is BitCoin where people who live in Iran, Syria or Libya may rather put their money into non-governmental units (even knowing the risks) than to trust their local governmental leaders to protect their assets from inflation or seizure.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Unlike previous generations young Australians are participating in community activity, many of which do not involve any economic incentives. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event. It’s the community that matters more than the trader. A community who vest their interests in each other.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Sign up to get: Top viewed stories, photo galleries and community posts of the day. Those drawn to peer-to-peer sharing cite a multitude of reasons for the trend, but one stands out among start-ups and users alike: finding efficiencies by shedding excess. E-Newsletters.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next. That summit would have been so foggy from day one you couldn’t have predicted it. That includes me.