Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Charity: water works with local NGO’s on the ground to deploy capital and resources to directly impact those in need in rural communities. While we were not able to stay for the entire duration of the project, here’s what the final product would look like based on other projects that NEWAH and charity: water have done nearby.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I don’t recall when I first met Raanan Bar-Cohen , SVP of business things at Automattic, but I do know we were already friends before traveling to Baghdad together in 2009, sharing an amazing week in Iraq. An amazing community. Unless that’s the way all Swiss appear at first. A fully distributed team.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Coders can create anonymous profiles and accept solicitations to work on projects or join a team. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Reid Hoffman

APRIL 14, 2013

Thereby, non-collaborative and non-productive. Unlike a community, networks can overlap while still being different. If you thought the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, what did you personally do about it? YCombinator founder Paul Graham even wrote an essay about the importance of keeping your identity small. Technocrat.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. Investing an extra $1m in R&D in order to accelerate your game-changing new product? They are not alone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have customers, you don't yet have traction and sales, how are you going to judge it? You want a business that has the economic moats, the defensibility that it's going to sustain.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you want them to pop, if you want them to represent your products, this is a retouching service to make your images look great. We get better creativity, we have better relationships, we get better productivity, we have better energy levels. You’ve got to make those images look great. This is John Jantsch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. We wanted them to learn what it takes to get their product/service deployed to the field, not give yet another demo to a general. Team: TrackID. Origins of the class.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? You want a business that has the economic modes, the defensibility that it's gonna sustain.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them. The name-in-a-sans-serif look says your company has nothing to prove and that you focus on product over promotion. Any thoughts? I find it depressing.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them. The name-in-a-sans-serif look says your company has nothing to prove and that you focus on product over promotion. Any thoughts? I find it depressing.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Part of the New Rules of Social Media edited by legendary David Meerman Scott , “ Content Rules “ teaches you how to create compelling online content that attracts customers, build communities, generates leads, and grows businesses. The book is divided into three parts. Show; Don’t Just Tell Avoid preaching or hardselling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. There are and we do.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Unlike businesses, government organizations don’t sell products, and they don’t earn revenue. Here’s Pete’s view of how you do it.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

I recently learned about the career of General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general that led DoD agencies during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq when attempted cyber-attacks against the U.S. and created a small website about China and Chinese products. and offerings of our products. Photo Credit: Renee Volpini.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

Facebook and Google can get into financial services while boxing out advertisers of alternative products. The war in Iraq has cost this country trillions of dollars that could have otherwise been spent on infrastructure—the way China has. Amazon can use purchase data to create new Whole Foods brands and Amazon labels.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

That research is the building block to innovative products. Marine Corps veteran who served four tours in Iraq, including two tours as a platoon commander and two tours as a Special Assistant to Gen. Do people really want this product?” It’s the envy of the world. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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