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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

Building off last spring’s pioneering Hacking for Defense class, which sought to connect Silicon Valley’s innovation culture and mindset to the Pentagon and the intelligence community, we’ve now expanded our horizons to the Department of State. How to gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries.

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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

Building off last spring’s pioneering Hacking for Defense class, which sought to connect Silicon Valley’s innovation culture and mindset to the Pentagon and the intelligence community, we’ve now expanded our horizons to the Department of State. How to gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Word That Could Represent Them and Their Business in 2019

Hearpreneur

On the personal side, I moved to my favorite city, Vienna, Austria, met great new friends and generally had a lot of fun this year. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. I definitely recommend choosing a word to decide how you want to experience the new year. Thanks to Angel Pretot, frenchfluency.net !

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Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live

Startup Lessons Learned

We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Welcome to our fair city. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Stinglight Photography

crowdSPRING Blog

If you live near Villach, Austria, we’re happy to introduce this week’s Small Business Spotlight, Stinglight Photography , to you. Yes, pictures are worth a thousand words… they are also definitely worth a couple thousand dollars for beautiful, original, and lovely shots.