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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. Space as a Domain. Lt Gen David “D.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.

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Seduced By Growth, But Terminal Scale Still Matters

Agile VC

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? What happened?

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

In this posts I review the potential risks for the Israeli tech ecosystem and the mitigating factors that counter some of them. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). What comes next?

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing). DataRails was founded in 2015 by Didi Gurfinkel, Eyal Cohen, and Oded Har-Tal. CEO Perspective.

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