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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. auto market.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Corporate Innovation

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Corporate Innovation

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Corporate Innovation

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers. In addition, firms found themselves now managing diverse product lines. and reorganized into operating divisions (by product, territory, brand, etc.),