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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. Each team stands up in front of the class each week and reports on its progress and setbacks. It’s tough.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. Each team stands up in front of the class each week and reports on its progress and setbacks. It’s tough.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property.

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