Ken Myer
Ken Myer serves as Trustee at ALLtech Benefits, Interim Executive/Leadership Advisor at Ken Myer Interim Leadership, and Leadership Lecturer and Faculty Director for the Masters in Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington. He specializes in interim leadership, leadership instruction and coaching, strategic and tactical planning, marketing, sales execution, and operations.
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Elon Musk's Starlink swagger, SpaceX vs. the cloud giants, and Seattle’s tech universe revisited
This week: SpaceX reports its first quarter as a public company, and Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver a majority of the world's internet within a decade, leveraging production facilities in Redmond. Musk also explains the company's data center ambitions, calling terrestrial infrastructure a trivial problem next to reusable rockets. Plus: we bring two Washington tech universe posters into the studio, 17 years apart. The 2009 original turns up gems including Boeing's unlikely connection to Classmates.com, a 1990s forerunner to Facebook. The 2009 poster also brings back memories of Teledesic, the Craig McCaw venture backed by Bill Gates that tried…
Boundless CEO Xiao Wang and Angel investor Dan Rosen urge startups to shift to 'wartime' survival, extend runway to 18 months
Startup leaders must shift from rapid-growth mindsets to survival strategies amid the COVID-19 shock, learning from past downturns and peers. Leaders like Dan Rosen and Xiao Wang recommend extending cash runway, cutting and renegotiating expenses, and using government programs to preserve teams and prepare for recovery.
Seattle robotics startup Picnic 3D-prints prototype parts to rescue UW student Rob Sinclair’s Kokanee Systems after COVID-19 halted lab access
UW entrepreneurship student Rob Sinclair paused his career to build Kokanee Systems, a real-time water contamination testing startup, but COVID-19 shut off access to prototyping equipment. A Seattle robotics startup, Picnic, stepped in to 3D-print parts and help Sinclair continue developing his prototype.
By Ken
Leading a startup through the crisis
For startup leaders accustomed to building their businesses in boom times, the economic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic goes beyond mere setback, into the realm of complete shock. But even in these unprecedented times, there are lessons to be learned from past downturns, and from the steps other startups are taking to navigate the current crisis. "We have a whole generation of people who never went through anything that looked like a dislocation or a downturn," says Dan Rosen, chair of the Alliance of Angels, an investor, biophysicist and veteran tech executive who has been through multiple economic cycles. "This…
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University of Washington Leadership Lecturer/Faculty Dir., Masters in Entrepreneurship | Commercialization Advisor, CoMotion 2015–present · current
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ALLtech Benefits Trustee 2014–present · current
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Ken Myer Interim Leadership Interim Executive/Leadership Advisor (www.kenmyer.com) 2010–present · current
Education
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Foster School of Business MBA, Business
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University of Washington M.A., Speech Communication
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University of Washington B.A., Speech Communication
