Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Today, I get to move our national security mission in emerging technologies farther and faster in ways that I could not in government. Unless you can translate how your skills provide commercial value, you won’t get hired. And while there is some level of self-justification in these statements, there is nonlinearity in industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Trust me – that kind of encounter can mean the difference between securing a contract, protecting yourself from getting turfed or getting acquired one day. Equally each of your board members are probably on 5-10 boards. Between Board Meetings.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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