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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

YoungUpstarts

Google notably bought out Picasa, an early website dedicated to photography and photo sharing, only to reduce its budget and quietly starve it out of the internet when it failed to perform to expected levels.

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“Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley.” How Alyssa Bereznak Covers Tech for The Ringer.

Hunter Walker

Since the Ringer is a pretty young online-only publication that caters to an entertainment-obsessed crowd, I assume two things about our readers: They, too, are probably creatures of the internet. Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley. My mom works at Apple. (I

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GTK’s and Pillsbury’s Internet of Things Executive Event - 2015 Edition

Growthink Blog

I had the good fortune to attend and participate in GTK Partners and Pillsbury's Internet of Things (IoT) Executive Event in Palo Alto last week. On a case x case basis, perhaps barely noticeable incremental improvements, but transformative in their aggregate. Work Process Improvements. Personal Delights. read more.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Premature scaling is the most common reason for startups to perform worse.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. Think of the Internet, short-formate equivalent of Discovery, NatGeo, E! You need to roll up videos into aggregated channels, “networks,” that are 30% of your views in the long-run. Not so fast.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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