Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2021

Lorenz began a long description of the details of the bacteria, his founders’ research papers on bacteria, the scientific advisory board bacteria experts they had assembled, how the bacteria was made at scale in fluidized bed reactors, etc… This went on for at least ten more minutes.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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JULY 9, 2013

I pointed out that there are four roles a financial investor can take in your company: a board member, a board observer (a non-voting attendee of board meetings,) an advisory board member, or no active role. Advisory Board. “Do Do you know what an advisory board is?” Lessons Learned.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

How could I build a solution that would address those points? If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Finally, since this is new territory for Tom and board, create an advisory board of other CEOs who’ve been through the “build” stage from a startup to growing company. In the past any customer could talk to Tom or expected Tom to talk to them. Is that feasible? Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . ” We certainly did.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How could I build a solution that would address those points? If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Uranium Committee In addition to the five NRDC divisions working on conventional weapons, the NRDC took over the moribund standalone Uranium Committee and made it a scientific advisory board reporting directly to Bush. The goal was to understand whether the theory of an atomic weapon could be turned into a practical weapon.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 15, 2015

They gather up all the “brand-name wisdom” in an advisory board, task force, panel, study group, etc. If your gathered advisory board, task force, panel, study group, etc., I’ve seen this scenario play out in almost every large company and government agency trying to grapple with disruption and innovation.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, life sciences versus commercial applications have radically different reimbursement, regulatory, clinical trials, scientific advisory boards, demand creation, etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

Finally, I suggested that he find someone he respects on his advisory board, who he was comfortable brainstorming with and would tell him when he has a bad idea. Find a Brainstorm Buddy. Yuri sat quietly for awhile. I wasn’t sure he had heard a thing I said, until he said “Wait 72 hours?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. With a bit of research it turned out that a professor at Brown University had invented something close to what we had in mind.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last year in recognizing the power of the business model canvas, I changed the final project to an Entrepreneurs Action Plan that required two pages of text on each of the nine canvas blocks, and students were required to create an Advisory Board.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

Investors who have successful ex-founders who you can call for advice, grab a coffee with or get on your advisory board is a good sign. If not, do they have a better methodology? Who Do They Hang With? And a sign that their ex-founders still like them.).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last year in recognizing the power of the business model canvas, I changed the final project to an Entrepreneurs Action Plan that required two pages of text on each of the nine canvas blocks, and students were required to create an Advisory Board.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. Over time one of our hypothesis was that our product should be a great fit for companies who had lots of customers, tons of data on them and wanted to quickly come up with new marketing campaigns.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If he already had an advisory board (formal and/or informal), add CEO’s who have been through this phase. And potentially the most difficult, think about upgrading his board by transitioning out board members whose expertise was solely rooted in the Search. If not, start one.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

He was on the Army Signal Corps R&D Advisory Council, the Air Force Electronic Countermeasures Scientific Advisory board, a Trustee of the Institute of Defense Analysis, the Naval Research Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and a consultant to the President’s Science Advisory Committee.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

What do you do with an advisory board?” . … We’ve spoken a few times and you’ve been very generous. I found a lot of people in the Valley have really been there for me when I’ve had questions, “How do you handle this? ” …It’s an amazing (pay-it-forward) culture, actually.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. HP 150a Oscilloscope 1956 In March of 1956, Fred Terman , the Stanford professor who encouraged Bill Hewlett and David Packard to start HP, wrote Bill Hewlett asking for help.

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