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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. That’s it.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China. The president was totally dismissive of our technology and manufacturing solution. Small is the new big.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. A top-notch infrastructure.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. That’s right. Two studies have shown that only about 10 percent of promoters actually refer profitable new customers. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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