YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

To stay competitive in our digital world, small and medium-sized businesses need to be equipped with and proficient in the latest technologies. In his new book, “Tech Debt 2.0 : How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line” , senior global business and technology executive Michael C. Tech Debt 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. We could design and manufacture the best systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Nothhaft, in his new book “ Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership ” are already calling these last ten years the “Lost Decade.” The innovation engine that powered the U.S.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

After all, as a transformative technology that can be employed inexpensively, artificial intelligence has enormous appeal to leaders looking at limits both in budget and staff and volunteer time. But identifying potential uses is just one element of responsible AI governance. Start with an AI framework. “If Judgment is key.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 31, 2020

The concept of governance is difficult to define in a sentence or two because it’s an intangible thing. A governance model serves as a representation of the many possible ways that a governance system could work if you were to change one or more of its parts. Governance models can be built in various ways.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 16, 2019

These shifts have necessitated major changes to the hospital governing board structure as we’ve known it in the past. Today’s boards and managers are struggling to keep up with the changes and adjust their governing board structures to meet the needs of their organizations. Governance Changes May Prompt Changes in Board Size.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Depending on the average age of the board directors and senior executives, organizations may have top corporate leadership teams that are primarily digital conservatives. It’s important for organizations to develop best practices for digital governance, especially in industries that are highly regulated. What Is Digital Governance?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years. Act: Execute the plan and establish leadership drive.

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Board Effect

JULY 6, 2023

A nonprofit governance committee performs many of the same duties and has many of the same responsibilities as those for a for-profit corporation. Like for-profit entities, nonprofit organizations often formally combine the function of the nominating committee with that of the governance committee.

Government 96

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Period, full-stop.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Dual-Use Technology As the war was winding down, the leadership of the Navy Computing Machine Lab in OPS-20-G was thinking about how they could permanently link commercial, academic and military computing science and innovation to the Navy. Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We look for many attributes amongst the team, including communication, leadership and management skills, subject matter knowledge, business expertise, relevant experience, openness to influence, team cohesion, motivation, integrity and credibility. There is no product idea good enough to overcome bad partners. Partnership.

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Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Phoenix Arizona 265

Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2013

Everyone else – who I call the “feeders” (government, university, non-profits, big companies, VCs, angel investors) – have an important role, but the leaders must be entrepreneurs. I was interviewed recently in MIT Technology Review in an article titled It’s Up to You, Entrepreneurs. What’s the difference?

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

However, mission-driven organizations, including nonprofits and those focused on social and environmental causes, face several unique challenges when it comes to AI ethics and governance. What Is AI Governance and Why Does It Matter for Mission-Driven Organizations? AI technology is bound to advance.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The governance board and CEO should develop a strong AI framework that outlines the AI strategy and includes guidelines for usage. As Richard Barber, CEO and board director at the Mind Tech Group, pointed out at a recent Diligent user conference, “If your board or leadership does not have an AI framework in place, they should.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

Professor Jack Chambless of Valencia College in Orange County, Florida has his first year economics students write an essay detailing the support they think should be provided to them by the government. Millennials, thanks to living so much of their lives online, develop short attention spans through constant interaction with technology.

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Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2024

With diverse stakeholder groups and growing expectations around environmental, social and governance (ESG), diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), cybersecurity and other intangible goals, MDOs face a unique challenge in demonstrating their impact. ” – Kara Klement, Director of Governance at Texas Health Resources 2. .”

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

The private sector’s ability to take advantage of changing workforce demographics and technology innovations, 2. Of course, all this takes a longer-term view and proactive leadership. (‘Just sayin’!). But no one ever said leadership was. going to be all country club golf, canapés and martinis at 5 p.m.

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Board Effect

JUNE 20, 2023

Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training. This is a good place to start getting back to the basics of good governance. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Practice Shared Governance Practicing good governance is everyone’s responsibility.

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Software Review Technical Review Government Community 98

Board Effect

APRIL 19, 2019

It’s also fair to say that managers often lack leadership qualities and vice versa. It’s also possible that training may enhance leadership or management skills in some people. Board management software is an excellent tool for monitoring leadership potential. The Difference Between Leadership and Management for a Nonprofit.

Leadership 89

Leadership Management Arkansas Government 89

Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

The rapid advancement in technology. Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training.

Community 98

Community Software Review Technical Review Government 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process.

Agile 172

Agile Technical Review Leadership Social Media 172

Board Effect

MAY 15, 2024

Enter technology and board development — the secret weapons for enhancing board engagement. Board development helps members understand their governance roles and the legal responsibilities that come with those roles. Creating a culture of engagement is the responsibility of all board members and organization leadership.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Software Review Government Pennsylvania 98

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine. And that has happened to us. As we described how the U.S.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

They need to understand how governance manifests in the modern world, which is quite different than board directorships of the past. Each board member should bring some expertise of their own, at least a basic understanding of technology and some aspect of diversity. Dealing with Governance Disruptors.

Leadership 72

Leadership Government Cofounder Technical Review 72

Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

The rapid advancement in technology. Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training.

Community 96

Community Software Review Technical Review Government 96

Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training. From their partnership will come thought leadership.

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Software Review Technical Review Government Community 98

Board Effect

JULY 23, 2023

Here, we explore best practices for community healthcare board governance that will make volunteer board members even more effective in their roles so that they can ensure healthcare services are as good as they can be. Technology and Governance The word “governance” stems from the Latin word gubernare , which means to steer or rule.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

Huge kudos to Bryan Leach at iBotta and Rachel Carlson at Guild Education for providing urgent and effective leadership here. We are leaders of 35 different technology companies with headquarters or offices in the Denver and Boulder metro areas. Why are we taking these unprecedented steps? Every hour counts.

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