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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. Our guest speaker for our fourth class was John Hurley , former Member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, an expert on semiconductors and supply chains, and former Captain, U.S. Lee Bell, “ What is Moore’s Law?

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

Member of the Advisory Board. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/24/2014. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. You too will be one someday, if you are not already.

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5 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

In fall of 2014, after over ten months of struggling with basic “business ethics” issues, I decided to resign from the company that I had poured not only my money but also 3 years of my life into. Our intention from day one was to have both an executive board and an advisory board.

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Led by former Apple project manager Brian Brackeen, Kairos set up an Endeavor-facilitated advisory board. Wyncode has experienced a 473% growth in revenue since becoming an Endeavor company in 2014. The Endeavor network provided Brian access to several high-quality enterprise connections.

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Strengthening Community Ties: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Better Approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Board Effect

In more recent reports, we find the following: 2014- D5 conducted a study that indicated 92% of executive directors were white. 2018- The Impact of Diversity: Understanding How Nonprofit Board Diversity Affects Philanthropy, Leadership, and Board Engagement showed that 78.6% of nonprofit boards were white.

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Startup Boards eBook: How to Build Your Board

OnlyOnce

The first series is designed to help CEOs better understand how to build, diversify, and scale their boards of directors. Both series of posts will feature in the second edition of Startup Boards, a book originally published in 2014 by Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani. I’ll write about the second one next week.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

In 2014, it’s easy to reflect on what has happened over the last seven years and feel good about it. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. Fred can ask me for help on anything he wants for the rest of his life and I will always be there for him.

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