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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Felter , retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J.

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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Felter retired Army Colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. He runs H4X Labs.

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Giving Tuesday: Five Ways to Engage Your Board

Board Effect

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. People are receiving emails, postcards and social media ads from lots of nonprofits in the weeks around Thanksgiving.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford ā€“ Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsorā€™s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversariesā€™ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford ā€“ Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsorā€™s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversariesā€™ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

After much consideration, I landed on Two Rivers – I was born in Baghdad, Iraq, the city of the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. As we were driving, one of my sisters was on social media and she must have seen something intriguing because I heard her say, ohhmyyyyy that’s so cool. Thanks to Toni JV, JVT Media ! #24-

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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