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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. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #18- Thanks to Danavir Sarria, SupplyDrop ! #4- 4- Get away from personal problems.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies. SaaS 3.0 ?—?many

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