Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. We had a management offsite plan. That’s data.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

This increased speed and capacity will require extensive infrastructure investments including “vertical real estate,” like towers and other tall structures; new data centers to process the increased information load; and much more. Jennifer Houlihan is managing director for Austin CityUP, a smart city consortium in Austin, Texas.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. As one could imagine this was the last thing the supercomputer center management wanted to hear.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) Several wealthy families in the U.S. set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries. Whitney Co. That same year Laurance Rockefeller founded Rockefeller Brothers, Inc.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Convergin’s J2EE-based Service Broker Platform enables communications service providers (CSPs) to manage services for a wide range of networks and application platforms, including pre-paid charging. Oracle Corp., AWARD-WINNING MARKET LEADER DVTEL ACQUIRES ISRAELI ANALYTICS LEADER IOIMAGE FOR $80 MLN. DVTel, Inc., DVTel, Inc.,

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Provide a list of target countries to your management team where new opportunities exist (as identified by your competitors). As sessions switch to https (secure experience), it is difficult for prying eyes to peek through and know that a conversion happen. I'm so surprised that California is missing from the top 7.

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