Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

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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. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. Carpe Diem.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. years in 1998 to 9.6 Let’s start by advocating policies that will bring risk-taking entrepreneurs and technology innovators back to the table before the American cupboard is bare. Share and Enjoy:

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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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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry. Eric is the kind of guy who’s always out to learn more, experience more, and give more. Since the inception of Sooter Consulting, Inc. Anders Goranson.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. Doctors and drug dealers equally found these devices handy. Video Recording.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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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? 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. Details on Innotech can be found here. After the dot-com bubble, it slowed down dramatically.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

technology. Implementing and/or improving systems and technology. It’s easy to design the right process; it’s also easy to determine the key steps and choke points to measure; enlisting the cooperation of humans and technology to ensure that information about the process can be accessed — a little tougher.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. Is the game over? provides you.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows. Google is the leader here, as in so many areas of technology.

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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]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link].

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. 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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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. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc.

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Diego Basch

MAY 25, 2011

He was referring to the time back in 1998 when I built an mp3 search engine in C, hosted it on my desktop computer, promoted it until it reached 200k daily queries, and made six figures out of it (all in a matter of months). ” I like that phrase, and I take it as a compliment. You can empathize with them. Do you have one?

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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. And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. That’s a fraction of the typical commute in Silicon Valley, for example.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

There are actually a lot of tools and technologies available now to really streamline your day and as I said earlier it’s amazing. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

The Movie Industry and Technology Progress. In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market. 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.

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