ReadWriteStart

MARCH 29, 2023

Following the collapse of California-based bank , Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), in early March 2023, startups and organizations that were caught in the middle of the catastrophe showed many other entrepreneurs and new business owners the importance of partnering with the right financial institution.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Silicon Valley Small Business 129

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. dumped Détente and embraced a new strategy to counter the Warsaw Pact by not matching them tank for tank or solider to solider.

Silicon Valley 194

Silicon Valley Stealth RSS California 194

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Be one of the last 9 people to own this credenza design. Where the match is in your favor, why not use that as a nudge? Our average delivery times to California are 50% faster than Amazon. 80 people in California have booked this destination in the last 30 days. How many hotel rooms, cameras, seats in a theater, are left?

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 232

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

5) The customer’s needs don’t match your long term direction. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. While I completely agree with this notion, the signals might be more important (when you might fire them): 1) You don’t have a bi-directional (respectful) relationship. Fire might be a strong word. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Customer Silicon Valley RSS California 216

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth is one of those truly descent human beings that you meet occasionally in this industry whose earnestness on camera is matched by his behavior off camera. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. We both agreed that, with all things being equal, cultural match is must.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

That’s exceptional startup growth that other cities will find tough to match. With businesses clearing out of California because of its oppressive taxation, Las Vegas welcomed many of those entrepreneurs with open arms and appealing tax relief. with their startups growing by 81.2 Austin has become quite a hotspot.

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United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 113

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 27, 2019

If you are looking to start a computer repair in Redding a beautiful city in Northern California, here are some tips on how you can make that dream a reality in 2019. When you do this, you will be able to design tailor-made solutions that will match the needs of the population. Analyze the Local Market. Build up Your Savings.

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California Salary Finance Matching 99

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

If we tried to match them on their playing field we’d never catch up. Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. They had more than enough dollars to outspend and out market us. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Silicon Valley Marketing RSS California 157

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Generate end user demand (to match our revenue goals) Drive that demand into our sales channels Value price our products to achieve our revenue and margin goals (create high-value) Educate our sales channel(s) Help engineering understand customer needs That was it. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 269

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Masterful design, branding and marketing. Innocent: Passionate Copy and Heart-warming Visual Design. ~ Then they match it back to their rules engine that serves me the best options. ", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? We are surrounded by incredible digital experiences.

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Web Design Marketing Security 164

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I’ve been an adjunct for almost 18 years, and I still remember the onboarding process at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. In exchange, I shared with him my feedback on whether the theory matched the practice and what theory was missing. It’s Been A Trip. And herein lies the tale.

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Cofounder Lean Reputation Programming 153

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

It is specifically designed for urban areas where fresh produce is often hard to come by. It is a matching service between dog owners who are at work all day and dog walkers. Already, the company has a permit to test its self-driving cars in California. But investors are taking a close look at this one, to the tune of $8.9

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Startup California Texas Founder 93

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Simply fill out a profile about yourself and your goals, and then search the mentor profiles that match your needs. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date. COMEDIVA, a web production company developing a female-driven video comedy site, is searching for that multi-talented web developer / designer / SEO guru who can handle.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2011

One man has pretty much dedicated his life to ensuring that we snooze better – David Farley of Corona, California-based Anatomic Global ( www.anatomicglobal.com ), a provider of memory foam products primarily used for bedding. But that technology hasn’t changed much since it appeared in the market some 15 years ago.

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Global Architecture California Matching 145

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. In California.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup San Diego 337

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. So what do you do if you go to your local claim website and the site was designed to handle 10,000 claims over the past three years.

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New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. He’s a co-founder and CEO of HB Risk , and a Professor and Department Chair in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. Engineers care about the design of the building, absolutely, but they’re not the ones with the money on the line.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Engineer California 196

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Privacy Notice/Your California Privacy Rights.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Over the past 20 years in San Francisco I went from negative net-worth grad student to Silicon Valley “Middle Class” (the 2%) to running a venture fund that, if we do our job, will ultimately put me in the 1% or better (in California the average annual household income of the 1% is an astounding $1.4m+).

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley San Francisco Vesting .Net 195

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2016

The ads that Cannabrand designs typically use lifestyle-oriented images: young people hiking, frolicking with friends, sitting around campfires. Once you have a solid understanding of the rules in your state, though, most marketing experts in the space seem to agree: the biggest opportunity for growing cannabis dispensaries is in design.

Colorado 48

Colorado Fort Worth Marketing California 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality. weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. Get a blog at WordPress.com Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

Silicon Valley 206

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 206

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2012

Located in the Bay Area of Northern California (though only a select few know the exact location), Google X Labs has a purported list of 100 projects in development that delve into the realm of science fiction, the products of which may just change how we interact with our technology and each other in the coming decades. Android Assistant.

Artificial Inteligence 206

Artificial Inteligence Nevada California Web 206

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. He’s a co-founder and CEO of HB Risk , and a Professor and Department Chair in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. Engineers care about the design of the building, absolutely, but they’re not the ones with the money on the line.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Engineer California 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). Instead of matching the U.S.S.R.

Silicon Valley 120

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. You can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 65,000 designers and writers to come up with your tagline , or you can come up with one on your own. Make sure it matches your other branding. Just do it (Nike) – 1988. Think different (Apple) – 1998.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. You can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 65,000 designers and writers to come up with your tagline , or you can come up with one on your own. Make sure it matches your other branding. Just do it (Nike) – 1988. Think different (Apple) – 1998.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Davis , a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farm er who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist , four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants. Their value proposition was to provide service matching, capacity planning and usage monitoring & control. If you can’t see the slides above, click here.

South Dakota 232

South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 232

Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Design your graphics, pre-show promotion, literature and show directory advertising around your focused message and theme. If there aren’t any that match your company, create some. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. IBM doesn’t have to shout to get noticed, but you do. Leading or speaking at any? No is the wrong answer.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 203

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2017

Businesses reach out to customers when the value they provide does not match up to the payment received. But customer experience is not just limited to good design. Customers reach out to you when they find issues that take away from the value they expect for their payment. What kind of experience that is depends on you.

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Customer Campaign SMS California 124

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2018

The FCEDA has a wide variety of services designed to help businesses at every stage of development, from entrepreneurs to large established businesses. No other local economic grouphas representatives in that number of locations, and few states can match it either. That is an outcome in which one can take great pride.

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Arlington Leadership United States California 67

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California. At Alignable, we see this as a huge opportunity, and so we consider ourselves a Boston company trying to “pull off a California,” if you will. Matching Algorithms.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. is now the third largest video streaming site in the world after Facebook and Google, while dating app Plenty of Fish sold to Match. Broadband.tv

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Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 83

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. A company headquartered in Fresno, California.

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Fresno Community Technology California 60