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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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. But it was the software that made the TiVo great. It used narrowband PCS and was housed in a clamshell device with a full keyboard. RIM Interactive Pager 900. It was reliable.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? Writing software for mobile is not the same as for fixed desktops or PCs. A: There are a number of top cities when it comes to mobile sofware and applications: Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Austin to name a few.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Its roots are in the campus and as Forbes frames it, they are disrupting Silicon Valley. Y Combinator’s influence in Silicon Valley has burgeoned ever since. A nice piece from Forbes that highlights the successful Y Combinator accelerator program. Some refer to its growing network of graduates as the YC mafia.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

In Silicon Valley many people treat the concept that “ideas are worthless, it’s all about execution” as gospel. He got it in 1998, back in the relatively early days of the internet. He figured out a way to upgrade the software on your home computer over the internet. Patent number 5771354.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. If you look at readability statistics or readability software, it's measured by grade level. Flat, you've flywheel, you know, in every startup, you know, Silicon Valley, you know, entrepreneur is using, you know that as Exactly.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Step #10 – Sorting applications by job — once applications are received, the goal is to ensure that the highest quality applications are sorted relevant to the most appropriate jobs (manually or via software). Sadly, the user system that has powered our website since 1998 no longer plays nicely with todays technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. reinvented, with more people online and trained. provides you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Huffington Post thinks the Midwest may be the next Silicon Valley – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer. silicon valleys.

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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.”

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. A recent article on Venture Beat talks about how Venture Capital firms are starting to take a Moneyball approach: “ In Silicon Valley, new firms are going a step further by creating an entire investment thesis around data.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century. That’s massive.

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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. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Reason One: Software is Eating the World. Toyota is a software company.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Last December when one techie interviewed by an SFGate reporter equated the word with a racial slur, a popular industry blog suggested it be replaced with the term “Software American.”). “Do In Silicon Valley, they say there is no bubble, just gas pains at the birth of a brave new world. Is Wall Street going sour on tech?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. Then now into TSheets which is a subscription based software with a much different model so again thank you for having us, having me on the panel.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased. Ironically, the six major movie studios have a great technology lab in Silicon Valley with projects in streaming rights , Video On Demand, Ultraviolet , etc.

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