Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. And Government Just Gets in the Way. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. energy independence.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Cloud computing is another great example here of how companies are doing more with less. Fiscal Policy vs. Monetary Policy – Fiscal Policy is manipulating the economy through government taxing and spending. Today, Return Path has less than one administrative assistant in a company of the same size. people that is China.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. The government wants to bring in foreign entrepreneurs to interact with the business community," Davis says. About a third of their money went to living expenses, the rest to technology they needed, like cloud storage and software. "If

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Who is moving to Silicon Valley, who got funded and who just pivoted. It’s as if there was no such thing as a ‘new business’ before the internet and silicon valley arrived. It was organised by Ned Dwyer as his startup ‘ Tweaky.com ‘ had just reached profitability.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Videogames Reach for the Cloud. Stock Quotes. more in Tech.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They did it all open-source, so from an ethos point of view it was opposite, and from an infrastructure point of view it was all cloud and modern like you would expect. Classic minimum viable product. For further highlights see Kent at 57:10 and Eric at 59:00 on the importance of measuring team members on impact rather than effort.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In his words, he focuses on the intersection of “Mobile + Digital + Apps + IoT + Wearables + UX + Cloud + Enterprise + Monetization + Government + Agile.” Based in Silicon Valley, the company has raised over $13 million in funding, including from Khosla Ventures. Mr. Isy Goldwasser , CEO of thync.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

I think the combination of powerful AI + cloud robotics will give them the capabilities. HW: I don’t mean to reveal book spoilers, but how does Silicon Valley fare? HW: If there was a particular ask you had of the technology industry with regards to its partnership with US government, what would it be?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

To confirm that the improvements in speed and stability were as it hoped, Box commissioned Neustar, a neutral provider of real-time information and analysis for the technology, telecommunications and media industries, to analyze performance against three major cloud storage providers. Crowded clouds. Strength in experience.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And their question for us was how should they organize and govern those and prioritize them and resource them and so on. Now that data, the data you need, you know, does need to be in the cloud, right? So I was with a company a couple of weeks ago who said they've got 75 different pilots going across their organization on Gen AI.

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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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. DealCurrent.com.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

When you are on a mobile device using cloud-based services there is something transformational in play, which is that not only are you bypassing many of the controls that dictate how you use apps but you are also using a network that is not under the control of your company. 1) Mobile creates clash of user experiences.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

On top of an Enterprise Cloud environment that’s supposed to be called JEDI. And what does the world of AI, Enterprise Cloud, 5G, and someday quantum look like? This entire class session was a talk by General Shanahan and Q&A with the students. Joint Common Foundation.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. How to bring together technology, government, and communities to combat violent extremist messaging.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

What makes Silicon Valley unique is that this place has stumbled onto a way to sustain innovation even when the place is doing well,” he said. I see short-term thinking clouding the judgment of financial institutions who have traditionally invested in venture capital. Silicon Valley is unique and a model to the entire world.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? This should not deter you. What Percentage of 2010 Seed Deals Won’t Raise The Next Round?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. And it appears that at least in Silicon Valley, a larger percentage of money made in the last tech bubble is recirculated back into investments into the next generation of tech startups.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. How to bring together technology, government, and communities to combat violent extremist messaging.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

In Ron’s network, the nodes are important business people and Ron governs and routes the calls. He gives most of the money that he earns away to charity, so greed never clouds his vision or his mission. let them know that (as The Game would put it) “if they are slipping in Silicon Valley and they get their deal snatched…&#.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

And I also noticed that there was always a cloud of talented grad students who wanted to follow him. (I I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2010

Even though the company was in Silicon Valley, he ran it like it was in Kansas: no frills, no hype, no crazy expenditures, just year after year of increasing revenue and profits. Their failures in multiple markets is no longer just a failure of management but a failure of board governance. More on this in another post.).

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One stupid thing you could do would be to move to Silicon Valley. 1 day ago How is it that a reporter can find Assange for an interview but he's on the run from the US Government? Some of these relationships will ultimately evolve into “strong ties&# as well. You need a lot of both. I'm good. Try again later.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. Nothing is going to stop cloud. So the shift towards cloud services. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). Our conventional mapping of “who we are” relies on a family name and government ID, but these are quite arbitrary identifiers that pre-date the Internet. Then, almost overnight, the idea became part of the zeitgeist.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. I’m long the cloud. My prognosis? We have a two-track economy.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

It provides the cloud computing services and spam filters that Google soon integrated into Gmail. It provides the cloud computing services and spam filters that Google soon integrated into Gmail. GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. ITA Software. or Twitter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. But email quickly moved into the cloud. It was stored in the cloud.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator. John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv. Perhaps attending meetup groups, or reaching out to any business planning and government led assistance programs in your city would be a good start (CYBF in Canada). all the others post above are also right on.

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