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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Weekly #Firgun Newsletter – August 8 2024

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In Israel, the week’s news was mostly focused on the expectation from an impending attack by Iran and its proxies. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. It’s hard to believe that even after 10 months since October 7th, there are still 115 Israeli h*stages held in G**a. Thank you for reading.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Unlike previous generations young Australians are participating in community activity, many of which do not involve any economic incentives. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event. It’s the community that matters more than the trader. A community who vest their interests in each other.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

Five years ago, Joe Felter , Pete Newell and I realized that few of our students considered careers in the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community. Today there is a national network of 40 colleges and universities teaching Hacking for Defense.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Sign up to get: Top viewed stories, photo galleries and community posts of the day. Those drawn to peer-to-peer sharing cite a multitude of reasons for the trend, but one stands out among start-ups and users alike: finding efficiencies by shedding excess. E-Newsletters.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. But an equally obvious case is BitCoin where people who live in Iran, Syria or Libya may rather put their money into non-governmental units (even knowing the risks) than to trust their local governmental leaders to protect their assets from inflation or seizure.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next. That summit would have been so foggy from day one you couldn’t have predicted it. That includes me.