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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. America’s adversaries understand this.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel. Quite the interesting feat ladies!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Facebook Inc.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. Haifa is also home to.