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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . When it comes to governance, putting operating heads on portfolio company boards hasn’t worked.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. AI/ML in Collection.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Blockdaemon on their seed round led by Comcast Ventures and Wallaroo Labs on its seed led by RRE Ventures.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Stanford as a Center of Microwave and Electronics In 1946 after running the military’s secret 800 person Electronic Warfare Lab at Harvard, Fred Terman returned to Stanford as the dean of the engineering schoo l.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money.

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

government kept up the pace. They were national efforts of hundreds of companies employing 10’s or 100’s of thousands of engineers. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S.