Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

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. Alexander Osterwalder joined us for the opening day, and Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar joined us for a finale. Assembling the Teaching Team. The First Class.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Will : Yes, and that was my first brutal intro into the difficulties of raising venture capital where I lived. . Steve : There is probably is no venture capital for 50 miles, if not 500 miles. . Will : Yes, (although)… Columbus, Ohio, has come a long ways, frankly, from a venture perspective.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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