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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. There are four main types of venture studios: Tech transfer studios , such as America’s Frontier Fund , work with companies and/or government labs to source ideas and intellectual property.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. Our website.

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How Non-Partisan Business Leaders Can Help Fix America

David Teten

The most impactful step you can take to help America more accurately reflect our citizens’ (and your company’s) political goals is to increase voting rates. Speak with your media spend partners when you see coverage that you think is unfair, unbalanced, misleading, or offensive. Partner with other concerned executives.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Stay tuned.

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

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Greg Autry & Steve Kwast, “ America is Losing the Second Space Race to China ” Foreign Policy, Aug. America’s Space Forces. and its partners to mitigate that threat?

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Celebrate excellence in governance: Nominate a leader for the Modern Governance 100 Awards!

Board Effect

We are thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the Diligent Modern Governance 100 Awards. The MG100 Awards, as they’re commonly known, is a prestigious recognition program celebrating the exceptional contributions of governance, risk, audit and compliance professionals around the world. What happens next?