YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Other examples cover the gamut of industries – there’s Cheerios and Pampers (FCMG), Reebok and Nike (sports apparel), Lenovo (technology), Ritz Carlton (hospitality), and Lexus (automotive), so no one’s really left out.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we pointed out in previous class sessions, in the 20th century, requirements were known years ahead of time and the DoD built incrementally better versions of the same platforms. centric rules for war were built around known adversaries and technologies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The result is that the DoD has world-class people and organizations for a world that no longer exists. It isn’t that the DoD doesn’t know how to innovate on the battlefield.

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deal architect

MAY 26, 2013

On the Innovation blog The Walking Billboard The next generation of UI Essay Grading Software Home theater with small room and budget The Amazing logistics of the Afghanistan withdrawal The Long Data of the PGA Tour The “Glass Collective” A. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The first time you use it in Afghanistan you realize you never trained it against data that had women wearing full-length black burkas, it didn’t know what those were. The other thing about AI is that you train it against one set of data that will reflect, to some extent, the real world. Interesting little problem.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

The unintended consequence of this decoupling is seemingly perpetual wars (we’ve been in Afghanistan for two decades). Many American families no longer have a personal vested interest in our nation’s decisions about foreign policy.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market.

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deal architect

MARCH 2, 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently wrote in Foreign Policy magazine “As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point. Over the last 10.

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deal architect

AUGUST 15, 2012

Mobile Payments in Afghanistan Amazon’s continued logistical excellence Comic-Con: Nerd-Fest. on the innovation blog CNN’s Chief Innovation Correspondent 5 Geek Family Trips Citi at 200 Theme Parks – a global growth industry The Ultimate Repair Shop Serious?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000. J: One that sticks out for me was from my time in Afghanistan. For me, this is why I decided to dedicate my professional energy to this enterprise.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2010

The Apple iTablet has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is being dropped by warplanes. Ingredients of The Apple iTablet include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. Do not taunt The Apple iTablet. The Apple iTablet comes with a lifetime warranty.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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San Diego Afghanistan Iraq Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we pointed out in previous class sessions, in the 20th century, requirements were known years ahead of time and the DoD built incrementally better versions of the same platforms. centric rules for war were built around known adversaries and technologies.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 20, 2023

He was literally coming to us live from his command center in Iraq or Afghanistan when he was running the whole theater of war over there. Years ago, I heard then General David Petraeus give a talk to a small group of us about leadership.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. When the sponsors asked their team, “Can we use your slides to present to our organization?”) That’s a win for everyone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. When the sponsors asked their team, “Can we use your slides to present to our organization?”) That’s a win for everyone.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

In 2010 Joe was in Afghanistan as the Commander of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. My interest was to get Stanford students engaged in national service and exposed to parts of the U.S.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6 percent of women are literate, according to the millennial census – though this data is of course nearly 15 years old.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation. The answers to all of these questions are yes, yes, yes and yes.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

There was no AR or autonomous back when he was in Afghanistan, but there was a need for location data and a better mapping platform. Both share an exceptional way of dreaming and executing. I remember Eric showing me the maps from his time with the World Bank and UN.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Four decades as part of the most successful advertising agencies in the world. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford. Jeff served in the U.S. Our teaching assistants Nate Simon, Aidan Daniel McCarty, Mackenzie Burnett and Diego Cervantes.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

For example, we tell the story of Cedric King, who experienced major internal injuries, permanent loss to part of his right arm and hand, and the amputation of both legs in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device explosion tore through his body in 2012.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation. The answers to all of these questions are yes, yes, yes and yes.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. . — Or, click on the links to hear Pete discuss: — — — — John Kuhn served 20 years in U.S. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. After being ignored for decades, Boyd’s OODA Loop drove the U.S. war fighting strategy in both Gulf Wars. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean. soldiers were tasked to clear caves that the Taliban used to store equipment.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2015

A former naval intelligence officer in the reserves, Tim was recalled to active duty and deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2009 where he served as the lead economic development officer in NATO’s Regional Command-South. He also held various strategic alliances and corporate development roles at Oracle Corporation.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Khalil Tawil is a graduate of West Point and a veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan. Umi can also dynamically control its offerings based on local demand. Last, but definitely not least, we continue to be impressed by Umi’s founders.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Or that the US Army allows servicemen and women to blog freely (subject to security conditions) from the front lines of war zones like Iraq or Afghanistan? Do you know that Indium – a supplier of industrial alloys and solders used in electronics – has 73 highly specialised blogs aimed at specific SEO keywords?

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 30, 2013

In particular, the segment detailing the lives of most girls in Afghanistan left me crying. While this description seems and is uplifting, some of the struggles of the girls profiled seemed unbearable. So, please take a moment to understand how lucky you are. Lucky that you are even able to run a company and control your destiny.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

The big companies are especially eager to recruit veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts who have returned home to extremely tough competition for jobs. The nation’s best truck driving schools are working with veterans who can use their GI benefits to pay for advanced driver’s training.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) For example, missions into Afghanistan are 6-8 hours versus normal mission times of 2-3 hours.). that’s pretty easy. For example, we can cruise offshore of potential adversaries (Iraq and Syria) who can’t get to our carriers.

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