Dave Blakely

About

Thanks for visiting. If we haven't met, I'm a fractional executive, venture builder, and venture investor. Here's how I spend most of my time: - Board Membership: I serve on boards as an independent director, actively involved in supporting strategic decisions, advising top leadership, and monitoring progress. - Building and Launching Ventures: Assembling entrepreneurial teams and guiding them to achieve aggressive goals by applying methods and tools of best-in-class startups and venture capitalists. I drive innovation with startups and also and create new ventures within large organizations - Market Discovery: Synthesizing subtle patterns from customer discovery as the foundation of disruptive ventures - Opportunity Identification and Analysis: Identifying links between emerging technologies, business opportunities and large-scale customer needs to create durable new businesses - Angel Investing: I invest privately in deeptech and hardtech startups, primarily on complex challenges such as energy transition and autonomous systems. - Keynotes and Short Workshops: For smaller interactions, I have distilled everything above into a set of interactive skill-building modules, and I frequ

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