Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Surrender to Serendipity My general rule of thumb is to make a big calendar with everything I could possibly want to do on it and then in the moment do whichever of the things is easiest and aligns with the rest of the group I’m worth. Doing what’s easy primarily means not waiting in lines and not waiting in traffic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). TechStars Impact on Boston. Integration With The Rest of Colorado. We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! Boulder As A Laboratory.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

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. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. As companies grow, it becomes increasingly important to build an organization that can execute in multiple areas simultaneously.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. When the Internet was on fire people said, “How do I make some money off this Internet thing?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. The old models are broken, and we do not yet have new models to replace them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Before I go any further, heres the link to the new survey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I support their summary of the seven capital assets that are the core required to create a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and produce real economic value for your startup and the rest of us: Intellectual capital – ideas, information, technologies. Contrary to popular belief, innovative new ideas don’t often spring from a single mind.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook’s ad revenue is pure… after the cost of running the site is factored in, the rest just drops straight to the bottom line. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. I pretty much missed all the trends. Great post.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

How can entrepreneurs make their pitch stand out from the rest? Don't miss @DougPepper & expert panelists as they discuss at @SXSW on March 9th: [link] #SXSW  —  @shasta Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. The rest can believe what they want. Cannon said. Amazon PostRank

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

But increasingly even centuries old industries like agriculture are becoming highly automated, in both developed and emerging economies, with more internet connected systems and data nodes generating raw information. We’re incredibly excited and privileged to work with Matija and the rest of the Farmeron team to build a great company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Hi Eric, I started off by reading a recent post of yours in regards to a cardinal sin of community management and ended up taking some time to poke through the rest of your blog, too, which is how I came across this post. December 17, 2008 7:45 PM spirink said. ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

To imagine that this person does so only to get attention, or only to harass others, or only to harass you are to play into the hands of this geek autocracy on the Internet that just isn't viable anymore. A person making a persistent loud complaint isn't a "troll," they're a person making a persistent, loud, complaint.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Jennifer Pahlka: I founded CfA in 2009, the year after everyone said that “the Internet had gotten Barack Obama elected President.” I wanted to know if that same Internet could not just make a difference in who gets elected, but actually make government work better for regular people. I’d been working on a conference called Gov 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How did you know this was going to be such a severe problem at a time when most of the rest of us were in denial? And when people hear the word startup, they think San Francisco or Silicon Valley, and they have a very stereotypical image in their mind. That was on January 22nd. Ron Klain : Yeah. We back them all over America.

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