Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Want to be a guest on the show?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others.

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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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. See Also: 10 Tips for Dealing With Startup Stock Options. If you’re in Silicon Valley and/or building any kind of tech startup, it’s considered the norm to offer equity as part of a compensation package.”.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million jobs.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). and no, we didn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. My blog was wiped out. He handled this perfectly.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. round closed Feb 2005. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak. April 17, 2011. I thought it was time to revisit my series of “Cliff Notes” S-1s.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

As a keen observer of startups over the last 17 years, one of the most remarkable and welcome developments has been the application of scientific method to building startups. Thus it was that Eric Ries both extended Blank’s work and made it more accessible with the publication of The Lean Startup in 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. Startup-focused. It was very widely read.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Jason Shellen and I overlapped at Google but for some reason, our best conversations always happened outside of the Plex – like on a bus heading to Google’s pre-TED dinner in Monterey, or some random startup event in San Francisco. JS: During the harder parts of startup life, I asked myself that question more than a few times.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. The ingredients are all here. No Dave S. =

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years – and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 20, 2013

Petrucelli is the founder and executive chairman of iClearpath, a n online immigration startup. As a result, the percentage of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has declined from 52.4% in 2005 to 43.9% investor was willing to invest in their startup venture. Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Valuations are higher in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach, New York and the North Carolina corridor than in Oklahoma City, Kansas City or Miami. For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 The Method should allow for this.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Recently, Vivek wrote a post titled Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem that resulted from a research project he did with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (I’m chairman). At some level it’s that simple.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

He says: Our sales had grown steadily since 2005; by 2008 we were doing more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually — two years ahead of our original plan. Tags: startup financing startup stories venture capital amazon.com Inc Magazine Jeff Bezos Sequoia Capital Tony Hsieh Zappos. Investors forced the sale.

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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. From the piece by Christopher Steiner: The accident was a summer program Graham started in 2005 for college students who were tinkering with business ideas. Y Combinator’s influence in Silicon Valley has burgeoned ever since.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? Its equivalent toasking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause offailure, you succeed—and thats too big a question to answer onthe fly. 1 ] In a sense theres just one mistake that kills startups: not makingsomething users want. Get funded by Y Combinator.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!,

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." startupcto

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. Why Buy Anything ?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine.

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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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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. That said, creatively balancing the budget between the essential elements, giving yourself the best chance of success while covering all the bases is half the fun of being a startup.!

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Here’s the first 2½ years of a startup journey. The Startup Investment Landscape. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind.

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