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Full circle: consulting, Silicon Valley start-ups, co-founding the TSA, venture capital, and back to Kearney

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Ben T. Smith, IV

Full circle: consulting, Silicon Valley start-ups, co-founding the TSA, venture capital, and back to Kearney. The story of how I ended up around Kearney for 25 years from a small town in Alabama.
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Posted in A.T. Kearney, Kearney, Relationships, Silicon Valley | Tagged A.T.Kearney, alabama, Ben T Smith IV, Carnegie Mellon, Football, Kearney, relationships, Spoke Software, Startups, venture capitalists, web entreprenuer | Comments Off

Ben Smith, Mark Boslet: Career Building Like A Startup: Thoughts On Reid Hoffman’s “The Start-up of You”

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Ben T. Smith, IV

In the 40 years since the publication of What Color Is Your Parachute, the job market has collapsed, collapsed again and changed almost unrecognizably. The time has come for a new job hunter’s bible. Our vote goes to Reid Hoffman’s … Continue reading →

Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Personal, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software | Tagged A.T.Kearney, Carnegie Mellon, LinkedIn, Mark Pincus, McKinsey & Company, merchantcircle, relationships, Risk, Startups, Tepper, UC Davis | Comments Off

Tom Klaff, Ben Smith: A New Spin On Corporate Venture Capital; How Big Businesses Can Encourage Innovation | peHUB

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ben T. Smith, IV

Corporate venture capital comes and goes in waves. In good times, money flows easily into startups. When times turn bad, most corporate investors disappear, and the waves they create crash violently on the shore. It doesn’t have to be this … Continue reading →