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

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. It is a process that operates with speed and urgency, where innovators and stakeholders curate and prioritize their own problems/Challenges/ideas/technology.

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Startup CEO New Years Resolutions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Shawn Gupta of OhLife , a personal journaling tool over email, has similar sentiments in using metrics to drive product innovation: Make metrics a core part of our product development. Developing products based on knowledge of our strengths and curating products based on knowledge of our weaknesses.

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