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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

Most of Google’s products are launched in beta in small, often buggy patches. They even use their own product as a launch page, because they’re still in private beta! 3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” Latin America.

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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. This phase also includes building initial minimal viable products (MVPs.) government federal research agencies to turn ideas into products.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Where were their production facilities?