Steve Blum, Tellus Venture Associates, talks about the role of public/private partnerships in community broadband projects, and the need to define clear public policy objectives in creating such agreements, at NTIA’s California Broadband Workshop on 17 November 2015 in Mountain View.

Steve Blum, Tellus Venture Associates, discusses the interplay of public policy and broadband infrastructure subsidies, and tells what works and what doesn’t, at NTIA’s California Broadband Workshop on 17 November 2015 in Mountain View.

Steve Blum. president of Tellus Venture Associates, sets the stage for a speech by FCC chair Julius Genachowski, celebrating San Leandro’s gigabit city status. Blum talks about how Lit San Leandro came about and describes similar efforts elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area on 27 February 2013.

Steve Blum, president of Tellus Venture Associates, presents an analysis of the market, opportunities and business model for expanding the municipal dark fiber network in Palo Alto to the city’s utilities advisory commission, 1 June 2011.

Steve Blum, president of Tellus Venture Associates, and Ken Gordon, CIO of the City of Oakland, present a broadband feasibility study to the Oakland City Council, 11 May 2010.