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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Today the U.C. Seeing Is Believing.

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The Importance of Women in Tech

Austin Startup

Estimates show that only about 14% of engineers in 2012 were women (Crawford) and that number hasn’t gone up far in recent years. Women such as Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace have been an essential part of Computer Science and Engineering (Gürer, 2). Since February 2017, the percentage of Women in tech positions at Uber has gone up .3%

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

Recommendation engines, predictive suggestions, and smart filtering are all at the heart of next-generation user experiences. The software allowed for us to stay lean while increasing our value. As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. Predictive data. Sponsored content.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.