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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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Twitter Link Roundup #171 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Good post by Seth Godin about online communities & personal motivations … Us vs. us – [link]. Good post by Seth Godin about online communities & personal motivations … Us vs. us – [link]. Rare recount of escaping North Korea – [link]. – [link]. Kin – [link].

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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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. What do all these groups in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DOD/IC) have in common? North Korea. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

Five years ago, Joe Felter , Pete Newell and I realized that few of our students considered careers in the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community. Today there is a national network of 40 colleges and universities teaching Hacking for Defense.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

How do you drop those on North Korea? . Blinken : We found that defectors getting out of North Korea have much greater access than we thought to technology, much of it coming in from China. Steve : Facebook, Twitter messenger, Instagram, etc., are 21 st -century versions of that but it assumes you have smartphones.

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Can the Bitcoin code be forbidden by democratic governments?

The Startup Magazine

For now, this is the price to pay to have a good relationship with the authorities and not attract unwanted attention to the community. On the one hand, measures (not healthy) are being taken for deanonymization and customer knowledge policies. See more here. Payment of taxes. It is said that the answer to 90% of the questions is money.