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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

Two Items for the Bucket List. Two bucket list items got ahead of my blogging so I’ve combined the final two lecture weeks of the class into this one blog post. The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. However, the downside is that one of failure modes of teams (and startups) is a team that doesn’t jell.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. But this digital world required new theories, and new devices – two items provided by Silicon Valley in the form of Stanford’s engineering department and the emerging/booming semiconductor business.

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10 Startup Red Flags

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Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. This means there MUST be a technical founder in a startup. Yeah me neither.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- This year was filled with learning experiences for me as a remote SaaS startup leader and I’m proud that my team could maintain our client relationships throughout the year. I wanted to boost productivity and efficiency while also reducing the time I spent looking for documents.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. Improbable with its SpatialOS is my favorite disruptive startup because it has developed techniques that make it possible to share large amounts of information between several servers almost instantly. 4- Wikipedia. 17- Improbable.

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Stealth Mode

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Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. In a post yesterday, Keith Robinson clearly articulated one of my conclusions, “I’ve heard quite a bit about start-ups and “stealth mode.”

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. But as a startup, it is the difference between life and death. Startups are very hard.