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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

On the other hand, the medical professionals and some commanders were more interested in monitoring physiological metrics in order to understand chronic long-term health issues facing divers and optimize short-term performance. Slides 2-6 illustrate aquaLink’s evolving understanding of the range of customer archetypes.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

On the other hand, the medical professionals and some commanders were more interested in monitoring physiological metrics in order to understand chronic long-term health issues facing divers and optimize short-term performance. Slides 2-6 illustrate aquaLink’s evolving understanding of the range of customer archetypes.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The solution is to understand that an innovation pipeline requires different people, processes, procedures, and metrics, then execution. Newell ran the U.S. Problem 6: How to get started?

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Understanding Data And Context

YoungUpstarts

Sometimes people generate indices to measure the quality of life in countries, and a metric like literacy is used as a factor. For example, on October 22, 2010, Wikileaks, an online organization that releases private documents and media from anonymous sources, released 391,832 United States Army field reports, now known as the Iraq War Logs.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we eroded toward the opposite: a cozy government-industrial complex that can't tie its own shoes (Katrina response, Iraq administration, SEC/Madoff, general regulatory bloat). Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

One metric that jumped out at me is the global reach.  .  There was a similar growth in terms of RSS subscribers, finishing with about 750 (although Feedburner "lost" about 400 of them this morning which I assume will be "found" tomorrow).