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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). You need the whole package. He wanted to raise angel money.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. No, the conversation was about to get more interesting. Since the first part of the lecture was about Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, Osterwalder flew in from Switzerland to teach slides 20-76. This week we saw the results.

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Davos report - a conversation with Alan Alper of Cognizant

deal architect

Cognizant is a regular at the annual WEF event in Davos, Switzerland. I requested Alan Alper, VP Corporate Marketing, keep good notes on everything he observed during this year's event. Here's an excellent ground level report - you can feel.

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Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis

Occam's Razor

On a serious note… offering your opinion on something, unsupported by any data except "I think", is probably a really poor way to start a conversation with anyone in the Analytics field. Technology Geeks? I can guess the Macro Conversion on site in two seconds. Affluent 100k+? Brides-to-be? Gossip Gurus?

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

These cities’ tech communities are urged on developing resilient and original technologies and organize themselves around creative spaces, ingenious communities and inventive collaborative practices. When we say an emerging technology represents a “paradigm shift,” it’s often hyperbole. March 13, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 12:00PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

John Warrillow: It’s why technology companies, ones, in particular, that are based on SAS-based software, for example, are getting tremendous multiples because acquirers know they don’t need to invest in a lot of infrastructure to scale. One is to create some technology or something that really … a better mousetrap.