Diego Basch

AUGUST 21, 2012

To put it in a few words: Silicon Valley and the internet industry are not one and the same. You could have made the exact same argument in 1995 but used the word “computer” instead of internet. There are Silicon Valley startups working on these problems. I know a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan. years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice startup technology vc. How I Avoided the Deferred Life Plan – And Why it Means So Much to Me.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. The next book I read was Screw the Valley: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America’s New Tech Startup Culture.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. And there you have it.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. Makes sense, but the reasons why are surprisingly complex and modern.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Even if you have heard some of the new terms, but can’t explain how, when, and why they are relevant to your startup, you may be in jeopardy. Startup pivot.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. I’m deep into writing my latest book. Following is the current table of contents. The table of contents, as of today, follows.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. He created Amper Music to change the way music is composed and created for video content, but it is not his first startup.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. Makes sense, but the reasons why are surprisingly complex and modern.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. The post Want Your Startup to Succeed?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2018

After “ Toy Story” came out in 1995 and was declared a huge success, employees wondered if Pixar would try its hand at making live-action movies as well. Pixar employees were prepared to make the leap from startup to a worldwide media company, like Disney. Stories deliver smart lessons. What about TV shows? Video games?

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

This point comes up often in the startup world. Whether you’re a member of a group of adventurers, or a part of a startup team, the narrative is part of what pulls the team together. Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. The startup process has become demystified – information is everywhere. Board Control. And while new markets were created (i.e.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Startups in the U.S. We need a regulatory regime that nurtures startups, rather than penalizing them like giant corporations. million applications awaiting approval, and more than half have never had an initial review, which really hurts startups. face the highest combined federal and state tax rates in the world.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. You can find it here.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in the early 1980’s that they formed Silicon Valley’s first lobbying group. It’s the national cheerleader for startups.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. Filed under: Family/Career , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Venture Capital. My closing arguments are below.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Treasury Department assembled 17 leaders of the startup business investment community, under the auspices of its Access to Capital Conference. There were CEOs and private investors, securities attorneys, the former head of [PriceWaterhouseCooper's] tech practice in Silicon Valley. It was a diverse group.".

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale. For good reason: A tiny country of only 8 million people — 0.1%

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. So although you were not willing to work as hard, you then founded a startup, which is.

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