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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Would you mind sharing them?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.
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David Teten
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 8, 2009
For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. Blank said it best “There are no facts inside the building so get the heck outside&# (quote source): Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our [.]
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.
techcrunch.com
JUNE 22, 2012
. “We’ve been seeing at least one post per week on TheFunded concerning mentor compensation”, said Adeo Ressi, the founder of both Founder Institute and TheFunded.com (a site focused on revealing the inside truths of the Venture Capital world). San Francisco, California. San Francisco, CA. Crunch with us.
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