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Startups – Integrating Security Mindset and Processes Early

YoungUpstarts

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. In the chase to produce the best minimum viable product or to push out the next killer feature, security is often given the backseat.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

It delivers on-demand, self-servicing capacity so as to allow users to run applications through a simple administrative console. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. Cloud Security Concerns.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. Generate end-user demand (to match our revenue goals).

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Today, our DoD and national security agencies are running as hard as they can just to stay in place, but our adversaries are continually innovating faster than our traditional systems can respond. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. That demands the right combination of tactical urgency and strategic patience, but there’s no question we have to move with alacrity on this right now. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

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Translate Your Startup Vision to Investor Values

Startup Professionals Musings

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Data security. These business leaders get demands from all organizations for more, more, more, with little ability to quantify payback. Integration.

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How to Relate Your Technology to Business Values

Startup Professionals Musings

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Data security. These business leaders get demands from all organizations for more, more, more, with little ability to quantify payback. Integration.