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

Steve Blank

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Bitcoin has a lot in common with early fiat currencies, so let’s take a second to review fiat currency and take a quick history lesson from one of its early adopters. In 1294 Gaykhatu (literally, “Awesome” in Mongolian) was the leader of one Hoard of Mongols ruling over what is now Iran, Iraq and Southwest Asia. Goodbye limited supply!

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. GEO-locating is the juncture that makes technology connections “real”. The Sticky Institute represents zine culture in a way that culture jams the old industry due to a lack of legacy infrastructure.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. I was born in Iran and I grew up there. during a time period when immigrants were welcome, even though we were coming from Iran and relationships between Iran and the U.S. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

We just had our third week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Russian Technology Strategy.

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Why many entrepreneurs come across as jerks

management.fortune.cnn.com

What really matters is that you know yourself; that you have a sense of when to dial it up and cool things down, and to ask for help when the situation demands. Tony Tjan is CEO of Cue Ball Capital and is co-author of Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck (Harvard Business Review Press). Standard Chartereds stock drops on Iran allegations.