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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems. As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. There was a time when much of U.S.

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Twitter Link Roundup #171 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Innocent Drinks: Don’t be Afraid to Start Small | Startup War Story – [link]. The Holy Trinity Of Startup Success: Purpose, Culture, Reward | Fast Company – [link].

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Because Iran, North Korea, drug cartels, tax evaders, and money launderers are using Bitcoin to evade sanctions, bank laws, taxes, and pretty much violate every lawful economic law on the books. They are already starting to do so, in China and South Korea, and the impact of this on Bitcoin value is just beginning.

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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Diplomats

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With the red-hot temperature around the crisis in Syria reduced to a mere boil, and the government in North Korea backing away from the brink I gave some thought this week to what entrepreneurs could learn from global leaders and diplomats in general. From Wikipedia we learn that Diplomacy comes from the greek word “???????,”

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. (During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) Yet in the last decade the U.S. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

I’ve spent my life at the center of innovation in Silicon Valley – doing eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching others innovation and entrepreneurship. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. Let me be honest about my bias.

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Small Business Tips: Foreign Payments, The Patriot Act, OFAC, and you.

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The Office of Foreign Assets Control administers and enforces various economic sanctions programs; you may be familiar with the restrictions and embargoes that are placed on countries such as North Korea or Iran which are designed to put foreign policy pressure on those and other governments.