article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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. Mass media, top 40, stadium ethic and the horrible idea of the Grand Prix is out dated. With a social bent.

Moldova 91
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Is social media good or bad for us? Yes.

Reid Hoffman

Each time in the past that we have invented such technology, we have found new and unique solutions to manage that emerging communications medium to help us create a stronger, better society. The Challenge of Social Media. Today, that emerging communications medium is social media.

article thumbnail

Thumbs Up On Gatekeepers, But Who… And How?

YoungUpstarts

Relentless Social Media. Then there’s the relentless deluge of social media. If you’re not part of the community, you may not know everything that goes into it. “ A Bitter Veil “, another stand-alone thriller, is set in revolutionary Iran during the late ’70s and was released in 2012.

Cuba 168
article thumbnail

Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. So it fostered a community of “try anything you want” developers and many people did just that.

Viral 307
article thumbnail

Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. And one of the first things that you saw is that you had daily cases being exported from Italy, especially from Italy but also from Iran but especially from Italy, to all the corners of the Earth. Eric Ries : Well, you knew.