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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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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. Shocking, I know.

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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.), 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. Slides 11-14 show their continued testing of their MVP underwater. The Left side of the Canvas. Pivot stories.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly Except they won’t be called Product Managers. and chartbeat.

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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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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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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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. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show? Listen to Episode 8: Show notes: Charlie’s Email – (:31). Startup Incubators – (2:13).