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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What if all availability zones of Amazon in Virginia are disabled for a week? Addressing those risks head-on, is required for a healthy and sustainable business that can last for many years. Take the risk of business continuity during a disaster scenario. How quickly could we get all our customers back up and running?

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

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Maddie Davis, “ The Space Race ” University of Virginia – The Miller Center, 2021. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s s primary great power competitor. Space as a Domain.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. Virginia topped Forbes Magazine’s list of best states for business in 2013. The government supports small business owners with popular incentive programs and offers many training and networking programs.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D. The Lean LaunchPad process is equally well-suited to areas like STEM education and government (e.g., It’s a Capitol Idea. When Steve and NSF created the I-Corps™.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie New CXO advisors join?—? Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

New CXO advisors join Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisorsNatalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

One observation that often goes unnoticed is that the government audit agencies – GAO, DoDIG – are also part of the problem, as they work hard in assuring compliance with bad strategy. invests large % of its GDP in research and development; however, the source of those dollars has shifted from government to private industry.