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

Steve Blank

As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. 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. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. The advantage of following New Venture Creation is that it had a deep pedagogical infrastructure that students took away after they left school. The Business Plan is Dead.

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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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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She has also authored many best-selling books for Amazon on sales, marketing, entrepreneurship and small businesses. Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. Gina Romero is a heralded visionary who has an abundant expertise in entrepreneurship, community and technology. Tamara McCleary. Gina Romero.

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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.