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Five Pitfalls to Avoid When Offshoring Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Doesn’t it seem to you that all the benefits of this business model are too good to be true? If you’re considering it for your business, check some of the most wide-spread pitfalls, as you should be ready to face some of them when delegating your activities abroad. #1 1 Failing to choose a proper business model.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. 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.

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Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Steve Blank

Worse, China will learn from and apply the lessons from Russia’s failures in the Ukraine at an ever increasing pace. But unlike America’s arch strategic rival, the US to date has been unwilling and unable to adapt and adopt new models of systems and operational concepts at the speed of our adversaries.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. while proposing minimal viable solutions.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

And finally, running subsidiaries and offices in numerous countries push business owners into overcoming mental barriers to global expansion. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is. Transitioning to and managing a globally distributed model isn’t plain sailing.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Each week, teams will use the Mission Model Canvas (a DOD/IC variant of the Business Model Canvas ) to develop a set of initial hypotheses about a solution to the problem and will get out of the building and talk to all Requirement Writers, Buyers (Acquisition project managers) and Users (the tactical folks). North Korea.