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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Both are “global commons” problems. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Both are “global commons” problems. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? It seems like it should be the amount of correctly-working code weve written. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Twitter Link Roundup #139 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Not a good metric for small business – [link]. Global search ad spending up 17% in Q2 (but Europe only 2% growth) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Washington Post Launches Crowdsourcing Platform – [link].