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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps. The important thing to remember is: Finding great beta testers is key to your startup’s success. Follow these steps below to get beta testers for your startup, all while building your brand. #1 3 Don’t go too stealth. Latin America. Middle East. Stumbleupon.

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?????????? – Tenacity: How I Spent A Year One Night in Kiev

Steve Blank

I reminded my Startup Owners Manual co-author Bob Dorf this is how entrepreneurs played the game, blah, blah, blah. I was headed to my second Lean LaunchPad launch, excited that the first one in June had led to four funded startups raising some $2-million from Russian VC’s. Your visa to Russia has already been used.

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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. That approach doesn’t work anymore. Innovation then becomes a continuous cycle rather than a bottleneck.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Now his son is reading your blog about creating a startup. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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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. The NSA and ELINT In the 1950’s the Strategic Air Command and the U.S.