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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. But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines. Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

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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. This revolution is not only creating new industries but also affecting existing ones – from retail to manufacturing, and from transportation to financial services.