Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2010

After some heroics from our CTO in extracting data from SAP, the Visio CFO loved our product, thought we could save them a ton of time and money and wanted it installed ASAP. After being in business for all of seven months, one of our first deals at Epiphany was with a software company called Visio , (now owned by Microsoft.)

CTO Hire 287

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review Startup 287

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Usually it’s up to the CTO or the operating executive who wanted the innovative technology (and at times with a formal HR integration process) to decide the fate of the startup inside the acquiring company.

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Alexander Osterwalder joined us for the opening day, and Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar joined us for a finale. We recruited two veteran Venture Capital partners to be part of the 10-week teaching team: Jon Feiber , at Mohr Davidow and John Burke of True Ventures. The First Class.

Incubator 301

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 301

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com.

Lean 120

Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

. … our product is manufactured in Shenzhen, China … along with most of the high-tech electronics in the world, so we had to locate a factory, we had to find the right partner to build this product and work with us …. Steve : Did you personally know about any of this? Nayeem : I didn’t, no.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Flatter organization, with a COO and CTO. Space Force was started as a separate military service to own everything 60 miles above the earth. It is trying to do things differently, building a lean and agile organization. Deeper partnerships with commercial providers.

Technology 284

Technology United States Iraq Operations 284

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

Framework 322

Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

Framework 322

Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2015

On our first show, Monday March 9 th 4-6pm Pacific Time join me, as I chat with Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas , and Oren Jacob, ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. And if the past is prologue I guarantee you that this will be radio worth listening to.

Channel 120

Channel Venture Capital Lean Business Model 120

Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk. — In our second segment, we’ll talk with Oren Jacob , former CTO of Pixar, now co-founder and CEO of ToyTalk. My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas.

Channel 120

Channel Business Model Cofounder Business Plan 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He I liked the fact that you linked to the wikipedia page for a payphone — nice touch Reply Chris Ryland , on October 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm Said: Where did Ben Wegbreit fit in the Convergent picture?

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

He also founded and served as chief technology officer of Life Magnetics. A tech entrepreneur and inventor, Brandon McNaughton was entrepreneur in residence for Detroit Innovate , an early-stage venture fund. Brandon teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Michigan Detroit 120

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ). Whenever he did that most vendors would ignore him in the meeting.

Silicon Valley 131

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 131

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems. While to VCs this was just a necessary step in the process of taking a company public, time and again first-time founders were shocked, surprised and angry when it happened.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Oren Jacob , Pixar’s ex CTO has been teaching with us at Berkeley and Stanford and has been trying to point out this connection for years!). I found other parallels between Pixar’s method for managing innovation and what we built in the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps incubators. Innovation Management – Animation and Startups.

Founder 120

Founder Lean Hawaii Incubator 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The UCSF Office of Innovation and Technology ( Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus) is the reason the program exists. Each of the teams is assigned a mentor to match their domainv(Head of device R&D of Phillips, Genetech, Crescendo, CTO of UCSF, venture capitalists from Sofinnova, Burrill, Lightstone, M34, etc.).

Lean 258

Lean Customer Business Model Customer Development 258

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. That’s it.

Artificial Inteligence 388

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Previously, Steve was CTO at Deluxe Entertainment , the provider of production, post-production and distribution services to the movie and TV industry; and EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Rovi , where he led the media company’s transition from physical technologies to e-commerce, connected home and subscription services.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We know Ben W was the CTO. I’m going to go get a coffee now, and you can have your meeting with those at our company you respect enough to not insult. Chris Ryland , on October 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm Said: OK, so who was the CEO? You’re making him look good, so he should’t mind.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development California 271

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Nand Mulchandani is the Chief Technology Officer of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). Mike Brown is the director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) – a Department of Defense organization that contracts with commercial companies to solve national security problems.

Artificial Inteligence 351

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technology Russia 351