Steve Blank
JUNE 6, 2016
Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong. You may be a better communicator, have a higher IQ, be more of a natural leader, be more persuasive, be more analytical, etc. Wadhwa is entitled to his point of view and he may be right.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Even PhD analytics eggheads. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts. Highly trained salespeople.
View from Seed
JULY 24, 2015
We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Talking design was Brian Kalma, design chief at Blade, a startup foundry launched by Paul English, former co-founder/CTO of Kayak. But all of these things must be combined with an analytical approach.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Localytics – Mobile Analytics (backed by Polaris). Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). No agenda, just come by and talk tech at Voltage.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil.
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