deal architect

MARCH 2, 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently wrote in Foreign Policy magazine “As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point. Over the last 10.

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APRIL 25, 2016

This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. When the sponsors asked their team, “Can we use your slides to present to our organization?”) That’s a win for everyone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

This week we had one group of students volunteer to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to see the customer problem first-hand. When the sponsors asked their team, “Can we use your slides to present to our organization?”) That’s a win for everyone.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a classic example.) But when everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. – Daniel Kahneman. As Kahneman explained in an interview , groups are overly optimistic and suppress individual dissent. (He

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.)

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 7, 2009

You don't have to look too far to see a lot of examples of how the absence of domain expertise and integrated decision-making has led to spectacular failures, from Enron to Wall Street's meltdown to the Iraq War. The Puritan Gift ends on a hopeful note about restoring America's leadership in global industry by returning to our Puritan roots.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2018

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. So how did fiat currencies get started and what can we learn from these early currencies about the future of Bitcoin?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Using analogies from evolution such as variation, selection and adaptation, Adapt uses far flung examples ranging from the Iraq War, Global Warming, 2007′s Financial Meltdown, to 3rd World Development efforts to prove its point. In a chapter “Conflict or: How Organizations Learn”, one learns how Iraq war heroes like H.R.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Such as (like, the Iraq, and, such as): Chris: "I try to blog almost every day. In case you needed proof of the efficacy of this formula, know that the post was re-tweeted 700 times and Chris currently enjoys an RSS readership north of 57,000. Thing is though, I do almost the opposite of his formula.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It could be the little girl in Iraq who grows up to be a scientist that makes the discovery which will one day save an American life. And especially in today’s world we need to empower every individual, harness every talent, in every corner of the globe. And learn from each other.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The result is that the DoD has world-class people and organizations for a world that no longer exists. It isn’t that the DoD doesn’t know how to innovate on the battlefield.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

troops in Iraq in 2004. The Hurt Locker dominated the Academy Awards in 2010, winning Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, among other Oscars. The man behind that screenplay was Mark Boal, a freelance writer who had been embedded with U.S. Mitch Albom.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Four decades as part of the most successful advertising agencies in the world. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford. Jeff served in the U.S. Our teaching assistants Nate Simon, Aidan Daniel McCarty, Mackenzie Burnett and Diego Cervantes.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members. The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Then we eroded toward the opposite: a cozy government-industrial complex that can't tie its own shoes (Katrina response, Iraq administration, SEC/Madoff, general regulatory bloat). The US was once known as a free market democracy that could make the trains run on time. Each requires the step before it.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Or that the US Army allows servicemen and women to blog freely (subject to security conditions) from the front lines of war zones like Iraq or Afghanistan? Do you know that Indium – a supplier of industrial alloys and solders used in electronics – has 73 highly specialised blogs aimed at specific SEO keywords?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

The big companies are especially eager to recruit veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts who have returned home to extremely tough competition for jobs. The nation’s best truck driving schools are working with veterans who can use their GI benefits to pay for advanced driver’s training.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2015

A veteran might tell you that they ‘drove a truck in Iraq’. He received a Purple Heart for his service in Iraq. Even straightforward tasks in the military require exponentially more planning and risk than equivalents in the corporate world. Don’t assume that you understand everything that went into a simple job description.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Why this is possible is that at its core the Hacking for X for pedagogy is built around the same Lean methodology that’s been proven on the battlefield of Iraq and Afghanistan, Silicon Valley and the 1000+ teams from the National Science Foundation. The answers to all of these questions are yes, yes, yes and yes.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2013

in Oman to 122% in Iraq. Akamai’s State Of The Internet report also looked at global average and peak connection speeds, which saw a quarter-on-quarter rise in global average Internet connection speed rise 4% to 3.1 Mbps (up from 2.9 Global average peak connection speeds increased 9.2% Mbps during the first quarter of 2013.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In his Oval Office speech on Iraq , President Obama acknowledged his concerns about the economy and declared, “Our most urgent task is to restore our economy and put the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work…We must unleash…innovation…and nurture the ideas the spring from our entrepreneurs.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we pointed out in previous class sessions, in the 20th century, requirements were known years ahead of time and the DoD built incrementally better versions of the same platforms. centric rules for war were built around known adversaries and technologies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. Operational Concepts are the Minimum Viable Products of the practical application of a doctrine against a specific enemy in a specific environment.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford. Jeff served in the U.S.

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