article thumbnail

The Cybersecurity Risk for Nonprofits and Fundraisers Is Increasing

Board Effect

Every state , along with the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, has laws that require organizations to notify individuals of data breaches involving personally identifiable information, and nonprofit boards should be aware of the data breach regulations in their states.

article thumbnail

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. When I sat down with Admiral Selby , we talked about Google. Forward-Deployed Forces : The U.S.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

As a marine engineer and naval architect, I have worked at various multinational companies and major shipyards in the Gulf region. Within just a few years, we had built a sophisticated speech recognition engine, and LumenVox was born. Thanks to Matt Strickland, Modern Realty Guam ! Hence my curiosity to tap.

Wyoming 107
article thumbnail

The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.)

article thumbnail

Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die

Steve Blank

Most of the fighter planes used to support the war were based in Thailand , or from aircraft carriers (or for some B-52 bombers, in Guam.) In the early 1970’s the U.S. was fully engaged in the war in Vietnam. I was 19, in the middle of a hot war learning how to repair electronics as fast as I could. Thousands of pilots and crews were killed.

Vietnam 312