Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Bill’s closing line, “The reason why Silicon Valley is so successful is that it’s so fxxxng far away from Washington” received great applause. Unfortunately, for startups entering a regulated market following this advice this might not be the optimum path. These barriers to new innovative startups are called economic rent.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
percent in 1998 to 7.7 Some industry insiders expect that there will be 10,000 SaaS startups from India in the coming decade, which means thousands upon thousands of new roles. Furthermore, skilled software development teams can be created outside of the Silicon Valley, providing the same result at one-tenth of the price.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g. Importantly, what does this all mean for startups? Others will, too.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
I’m an unabashedly pro-Silicon Valley homer. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. And it’s interesting to consider why. Largely American/Western.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. 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. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
This one phrase became the theoretical underpinning of the out-of-control spending of startups during the dot-com bubble. Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. Product Pioneer.
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