The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. Lifograph CEO Dea Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director at the Silicon Valley Incubator. Dea Wilson, CEO at Lifograph. Dubbed “Ms.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Another great example of innovation comes courtesy of Metromile, a startup right out of Silicon Valley that’s changing the way auto insurance is provided. And then there’s New York-based Lemonade, the most recent insurtech startup to make its way into California. She’s based in L.A.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.) And they were responsible for helping our 3 rd party software group reach the right application providers to port their software to our computer. Back in the 1960’s and 70’s no sane MBA’s would work for a Silicon Valley startup.)

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

But it does lead me to ask peers about how they first encountered, and committed to, software. The combo convinced me that software was for creativity and community — 100% impacted the rest of my life. Is there an alternate future where Boz didn’t return to California? Projecting from my own personal history?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

In the US, San Francisco is synonymous with startups, and the attitudes and opinions that permeate the tech space, from New York to Austin to Silicon Valley, is largely derived from what’s considered the norm in the 415 area code. In California, you are admired, rather than shamed, for your failure. The startup attitude.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Would you mind sharing them? Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. Reply Sean Murphy , on June 25, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: @Prakash: at least for software there is an implicit relationship established. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Look at the early Silicon Valley companies – Homebrew Club =>PCs. BPM vendor (every software vendor!) Steve Blank and Eric Ries writings should be mandatory for software developers in the BPM [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The products sold themselves. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. For enterprise software, you taught us, the first step is to get ‘some’ customers to buy, and identify how much they’re willing to buy, not to measure how many are buying. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Keep teaching!

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley was an Oxymoron A key premise of our new company was that our video compression and authoring technology would revolutionize how games were made and played. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The companies I was involved with as board member, such as Inxight Software (sold to BOBJ), were living on a high through the hype phase and had to relearn and retool themselves to make it on scarce resources and raw talent. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

But we knew something they didn’t; the total available market for color graphics boards was measurable by looking at an adjacent market, the color desktop publishing software market. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I’ve learned so much! Thanks for sharing! Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours. Thanks for sharing! Order Here. Now In Print!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows. Next, Neal Jha from Fremont, California, pitched MyDataOrganizer. We can guide you on how to organize a gathering. MyDataOrganizer.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”. Large enterprises are also complaining about keeping up with so many different regulations like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Designing software with a privacy-first mentality becomes a core theme in 2019.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Founder Institute is the brain child of Adeo Ressi , a super passionate and successful serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, probably best known for founding TheFunded.com.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

The differences between the Bend, Oregon region and Silicon Valley are obvious. The sheer density of talent, companies, capital and universities that exist in the Valley are second to none. Silicon Valley Transplants. But the real surprise was learning that for some Bend is a Silicon Valley bedroom community.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. Europe had the market cornered.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve been blogging, commenting, emailing, and all over social media searching for folks to buy in to my pitch, smart personalized web software (to aid pasive search -Dave winer calls it two way, and relevant ads). Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. Europe had the market cornered.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nearly two years since CA governor Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act which was designed to close the wage gap, women in Silicon Valley still report that their multi-billion dollar tech giant employers are still paying them less than their male counterparts for equal work (Larson).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

California and NY dominate for number of seed deals. California is the clear #1 for seed investment activity followed by strong #2 New York. The Internet sector continues to lead the pack (information technology and software), followed by Healthcare (medical devices and equipment), then Mobile (CRM) & Telecom (wireless).

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, etc.,) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. this may be a useful read. You can learn more about them here: [link] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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