YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. Here are four major reasons why nearshore is often a solution that provides the best of both worlds: Cost Effectiveness.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. It fails when facing unknowns.

Technology 381

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models. ” Acquire at Speed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. It fails when facing unknowns.

Technology 126

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. He welcomed us by screaming, “Do you know how much it costs every minute this line is down.&# the manager followed us still yelling.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars. Lessons Learned.

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