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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. If we network them together, theyll answer each others questions and collaborate on projects we can hardly imagine. They are nerds.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I am basically a one-man shop. Amazon PostRank

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. These individuals, possessing talent, experience or real-world networks, will continue to function as ‘virtual gatekeepers’ in the next-generation media industry.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. And, more often than not, wed watch those companies flame out and die while we continued to grow steadily every month. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Maybe, but the thought never even entered our minds.