Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). This architecture is intuitively more exciting to me, but questions remain about scalability. Then, almost overnight, the idea became part of the zeitgeist.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

. … (Still) We had no idea the complexity that would be involved from sourcing the manufacturer and how long it would take once you found that manufacturer to be able to engineer the product… It’s very different when you’re engineering a product to make 100 of parts. …. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

The early architecture conditions created what engineers called “technical debt” and that effectively became weaponized to stall significant investment in fixing the old in order to build the future. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration.

Product 62

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e.

Vertical 144

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. The architecture/capabilities needed to build out a more resilient communication network.

Technical Review 322

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. What a great idea. No, not really. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This reality has fostered a popular startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Business architecture pivot. Engine of growth pivot. Most customers buy solutions, not platforms. Channel pivot.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. Toward that end, they have created two products. Discuss.

India 123

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Many of the newer service marketplaces feel more like “movements” rather than “businesses,” and actually require very careful architecture of the end-to-end experience both online and offline, including areas such as culture and workflow. Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going.

Mobile 136

Mobile Silicon Valley Viral Technical Review 136

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

When I got my first job in Silicon Valley it was through serendipity (my part) and desperation (on the part of my first employer.) It was at my second startup in Silicon Valley that my life and career took an interesting turn. Steve, the VP of Sales and Marketing previously ran their engineering department.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

I watched him jump on a plane regularly to be down at all of our board meetings and while I know that sounds like an obvious commitment from a VC, I’ve watched other scenarios where NorCal VCs find reasons to always dial in via Google Hangouts or ask non-Silicon Valley investments to travel to Menlo Park or San Francisco for meetings.

Silicon Valley 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This reality has fostered a popular new startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Business architecture pivot. Engine of growth pivot. Most customers buy solutions, not platforms. Channel pivot.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As an academic, she is appointed as a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and an Adjunct Professor in the Columbia University Department of Architecture. in Mechanical Engineering (Product Design) and a B.A. She received a PhD & M.S. in Tangible Media from the MIT Media Lab and a B.S. in Art History from Stanford University.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine? Why the Midwest is better for startups than saturated Silicon Valley | VentureBeat - crowdspring.co/1akquBC. Why Our Brains Love Curvy Architecture | Co.Design - crowdspring.co/HarJcD. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. GrowthHackers - crowdspring.co/1akvc2y.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system.

Software Review 94

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. Silicon Valley melting pot. The greatest leverage is when the project is in its earliest phases, when we are deciding on architectures in the context of market requirements and when technology choices are being made.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can capitalize on new customers.

San Francisco 150

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

From the point of view of someone managing an engineering, manufacturing or operations organization, new, unplanned and unscheduled innovations are a distraction and a drag on existing resources. The best description I’ve heard is that, “Unfettered innovation is a denial of service attack on core capabilities.”)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Let me show you what this looked like after a few years of practicing five whys in the operations and engineering teams at IMVU.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers. Many of us engineers are strong introverts, without fantastic people skills.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A steam engine of the mind. The second question is equally vital, but might be unexpected coming from a Silicon Valley entrepreneur: How can I increase beauty in the world? Six hundred years later, it remains one of the most remarkable and beautiful works of architecture in the world. A cognitive GPS.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But each time we met and she looked at the technical details of our system, and politely told me I was an idiot and my engineering department was even dumber. It took two meetings before I finally got what she was trying to tell me – we understood her problem all right, but our architecture was missing the most important feature to solve it.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley are notorious for both their tardiness and distractedness. Some elements that we have put in place include: Be on time for meetings with entrepreneurs and pay attention —When you found a company, your entire life goes into it.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

The plug-in co-processor architecture was too complex and couldn’t be made to work reliably. Now we were faced with the fact that even though we were gaining market share daily, there was nothing coming out of Engineering. Instead of eight boards, Engineering was going to be able to deliver one new graphics board.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global. What advice would you give entrepreneurs on how to think about the architecture and structure of their products? It was entirely by accident to be honest!

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York was Grant Warner , director of innovation and entrepreneurship at Howard University’s College of Engineering Architecture and Computer Science, and co-founder of ConnectYard. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

Government 120

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy. This line in your article stood out to me: "Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy."

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Do you have a, a clear technology architecture with the specific set of features to it? So there was this giant trend, you know, five to eight years ago around go to Silicon Valley or you know, go to London or you know, New York and you know, sort of hire the cool kids from digital natives to come to your company.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I’ve railed against the “if you’re serious you move to Silicon Valley” myth so many times (and called the purveyors of that falsehood more names than I care to remember) that I can’t even believe it still ever comes up. Do *any* of them live in Silicon Valley?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I’ve railed against the “if you’re serious you move to Silicon Valley” myth so many times (and called the purveyors of that falsehood more names than I care to remember) that I can’t even believe it still ever comes up. Do *any* of them live in Silicon Valley?

Colorado 52

Colorado Silicon Valley Azure API 52

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2015

NerdWallet raised $64 million in Series A led by Institutional Venture Partners – Silicon Valley Business Journal [link] crowdspring.co/1IClQlq How to Create Shareworthy Content | Search Engine Journal [link] crowdspring.co/1A7xhOR How Bitcoin Technology Could Make Home Buying Hassle-Free [link] crowdspring.co/1ITbe0i

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