ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Today, the company produces low carbon footprint fruits and vegetables and sells to distributors in California, Nevada and Arizona.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If you think you are going to offend your customers or embarrass your engineering organization, get out of the marketing department. Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. Visually, demo’s, wild colors, etc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I remember thinking, “What a disappointment one of the smartest engineers I know and he is going to waste his time making games.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support. I’m not saying this because I’m trying to pump up the venture capital industry; it’s based on my experiences as an entrepreneur, where I had great VC partners (and some not so great ones).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. Plants love it. How do you choose which to focus on? Great question.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, Fred Terman, encouraged scientists and engineers to set up companies to build these microwave tubes for the military. They would also set the standard for the 20% carry for general partners. This next product, the Traveling Wave Tube, would have a major impact on electronic intelligence.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

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. We were about to be partners in building a new product family. What could we do? Yes, yes and yes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Communication between scientists, engineers and corporations were relatively open, and ideas flowed freely. At Stanford, Dean of Engineering Fred Terman wanted companies outside of the university to take Stanford’s prototype microwave tubes and electronic intelligence systems and build production volumes for the military.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies. In a typical venture fund, the partners receive a 2% management fee. This is where the partners would make their money. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) They would get a share of the profits of the fund (typically 20%.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. Thanks to my wife for being a great partner. Document every step. It takes two.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Dr. Li recently joined Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman on Iconversations to discuss the ethical considerations researchers, technologists and policymakers should make when developing and deploying AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Dr. Li recently joined Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman on Iconversations to discuss the ethical considerations researchers, technologists and policymakers should make when developing and deploying AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. For each category, you need to partner with your creative teams on ad content, with your marketing team for ad targeting. That is how you avoid spray and pray.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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