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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. In class six we discussed unmanned systems and autonomy and how the advent of these weapons will change operational concepts and the face of war. Space as a Domain. Space Force.

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The “Grow or Die” Lie: Why Everything You Think You Know About Business Growth Is Wrong

YoungUpstarts

Between 2005 and 2007, Starbucks aggressively opened new store locations and made several operational changes that diluted its customer value proposition, diluted its high employee engagement culture, violated its real estate site selection controls, and weakened its high value-added ‘experience’ business model.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works! They could have taken the tens of millions of dollars that the product cost to develop, and made their existing operation just 0.01% more effective, and made the same amount of money. What if all availability zones of Amazon in Virginia are disabled for a week?

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The Top Nine Challenges Of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business And How To Tackle Them

YoungUpstarts

I recently studied 54 high-growth entrepreneurial companies based in 23 different states, all of which were designated as successful growth companies by leading magazines or accounting firms. The 54 companies in the study operated product and service businesses, had been in business on average 9.6

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Eight Ways To Fight Entrepreneurial Fires And Constantly Improve In The Process

YoungUpstarts

The study was designed to illuminate the common challenges entrepreneurs faced as they pursued growth after surviving the start-up phase. You should also have checklists critical to the operation of your business. No matter how much entrepreneurial experience you might have, your business shouldn’t be any different.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The organization is designed so that it can function generally as an LLC would, while legally accepting foundation grants because of the organization’s socially beneficial goals. L3Cs, or Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies, are one form of legal structure in the U.S. that social enterprises can take. What about the rest of us?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design 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. And that has happened to us.