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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

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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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. 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.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Some students who were getting their engineering graduate degrees wrote masters and PhD thesis that were classified. Four years later Ayer and another Granger engineer would leave Granger and found one of the preeminent electronic warfare and ELINT companies: Applied Technologies. The future of the valley was clear – microwaves.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. Plants love it. How do you choose which to focus on? Great question.

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Human-Centered AI

Reid Hoffman

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. RH: Well, and obviously I’m familiar since I’m chairing your advisory board with the feds. FFL: So, Reid, here’s a secret.

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Human-Centered AI

Reid Hoffman

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. RH: Well, and obviously I’m familiar since I’m chairing your advisory board with the feds. FFL: So, Reid, here’s a secret.

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