CTO Operations Portfolio Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2020
We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Five Types of Innovation to Buy.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 21, 2014
Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Stuart was a co-founder at my first startup company and ended up running global operations. Neither is very strategic nor in the best interest of either set of customers that VCs have (portfolio companies & LPs).
Version One Ventures
APRIL 11, 2019
Six weeks ago, we kicked off a new series where we profile an awesome operator in our network to learn about his/her work and contributions to his/her organization and community at large. This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company.
View from Seed
JULY 24, 2015
We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Half our portfolio is consumer. This is a recap of the more insightful tweets and comments from the event.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Dog Patch Labs – Shared workspace operated by Polaris Ventures. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Evolv Technologies – Advanced Imaging Technology (backed by General Catalyst and Bill Gates).
mashable.com
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners.
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