Steve Blank
JANUARY 5, 2023
Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the CIA’s CTO and COO Nand Mulchandani and Andy Makridis. Final Problem Statement: How should the US manage China’s dominance in solar panels?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Leading and managing people amid uncertainty, high degrees of change, and making decisions remain my day-to-day functions. My current role as a Chief of Staff is in many ways like a DCOS (deputy chief of station ) or a traditional Chief of Staff in government. I received an offer shortly thereafter.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).
Steve Blank
JUNE 6, 2016
Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. It sounds very obvious, but I’m amazed sometimes that I see that people are trying to solve a problem using data that’s not particularly relevant to a problem. .
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
I’m now getting more involved in my new job as CTO and I’m too busy to go back and forth negotiating this.” I had let my board tell me that the opportunity I saw was a commodity that could be managed by a spreadsheet. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when he sent me a very polite note back that said, “Thanks but no thanks.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion Some had their own labs managing large groups of researchers. This week we saw the results. It was an extraordinary effort. billion U.S.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
I want folks managing their programs, not managing the Pentagon bureaucracy. Flatter organization, with a COO and CTO. General Raymond has managed to thread the needle to make this a service. That’s going to require some different rules for operating under. We’re really trying to delegate down to the lower levels.
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