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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here. If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. The Left side of the Canvas.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. Nothing is more demoralizing to an engineering team.

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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. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Learn more about Techstars , a startup accelerator program.