Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

But then when I was eight or nine years old, the Gulf Warhead, I was born in Kuwait and security had lapsed, came together to rescue the country. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. Today, of course, these kids are in the slum, they're all well off.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. Perhaps this is why the Kuwait Investment Authority put $165 million into Jawbone and Saudi’s PIF put $3.5 billion into Uber. or Walmart buying Jet for $3 billion.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean. In 2010 Colonel Peter Newell took over the REF and turned its focus into what we would call a Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Israel: Haifa Italy: Cesena Milan Rome Kuwait: Kuwait City Lithuania: Vilnius, Jasinskio 16C Vilnius, 6 Šermukšni?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. I just met an entrepreneur in Kuwait and we’re now connected on email. I do regular (almost daily) “Snapstorms” of content around one topic for entrepreneurs and VCs. I can’t always.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. To me, it also means being accessible in my job as a startup investor--and doing away with systematic exclusion tactics like the "warm intro" where you can only break into the tech community if you already know people in it.

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