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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

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Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative

This is going to be BIG.

So when we elected a "tough on crime" Republican Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, that cemented my Republican leanings. Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. My family's name isn't on any buildings and they didn't have the money to fund my investments, so I felt like I didn't have help to break into my industry.

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