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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

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? Where is it going?

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15 Inspirational TV Shows For New Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In this fictional series, a disillusioned software developer Naveen quits his job via a drunken phone call on a night out. Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is a comedy series which follows the lives of a computer programmer and his geeky friends as they try to take advantage of the high tech gold rush.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

The idea of this course started on a trip to Stanford University during March 2010, where we realized that many of the great innovations in Silicon Valley are born from Computer Science students, so we said “We should give our computer science students an opportunity to develop a company”.

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Thoughts on being a startup in Chicago: 3 tips for entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

In March, Ross and I will be hosting a talk at South by Southwest; it’s called “ Third Coast: How to be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# We have been thinking a lot about this lately and discussing the challenges we have faced on our own path. Funding, too, was a challenge. Research, research, research.

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