ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Ditto for Apple. But the world has changed.

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Distribution San Francisco Silicon Valley El Salvador 117

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

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. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Carpe Diem.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Sold to Yahoo! The difference?

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Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Even someone as smart as Larry Page learned this during the early days of Google.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

billion acquisition of Nest , a Silicon Valley based company that sells “smart” thermostats and smoke detectors: - Build vs Buy: Even for a company with significant resources such as Google, it is difficult to innovate beyond core products. A few observations from the just announced Google $3.2

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Acquisition 94