Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?” When I told him, “two more days,” he asked, “Are you interested in meeting with venture firms in the Valley?”

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. If you think about software platforms in the last 20 years a few stand out. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

They seized the opportunities presented by open APIs, and they rode the ongoing shift to mobile devices. Best of all, the Web and mobile app significantly cuts down on unnecessary email, transforming the way teams communicate. Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. Read More ».

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. 1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants. 3gSimplified.

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India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Screen) size matters for mobile interface design | VentureBeat – [link]. Twitter Is Building A Gateway To The “Web” Of Mobile Apps | TechCrunch – [link]. Ranking the Top 10 Cloud Startups – [link]. Facebook’s mobile hype, eyeballs and dollars grow. Facebook’s mobile hype, eyeballs and dollars grow.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Intrepid – Mobile development. Ruby specialists.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. The technology has been highly acclaimed in the mobile device community as a way to let users type in multiple, especially non-Latin, languages.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. We have just entered the mania phase.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The industry is extremely low-tech, but in today's India, everyone uses mobile phones. I pointed Ankur to Obopay, a mobile payment solution , by which, conceivably, he can turn the cash-intensive nature of the business to a more efficient and accurate workflow. Upwardly mobile consumers, I am sure, would welcome a service like Delyver.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Google I/O. Social Media Marketing World.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Almost a thousand SaaS/cloud startups have been launched over the past decade, and in each niche there are opportunities for concept arbitrage using this basic formula. However, in my assessment, the bigger opportunity for this business is to go to market as a mobile app. ET Interactive.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. This was followed by moderate success in starting my own cloud-based HR software. 2- Develop world-class vehicles.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 117

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. Corrections.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. I love seeing non Silicon Valley markets boom as it broadens our country’s innovation hubs. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching. In a word, awesome.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Much has been written about the gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, collaborative economy, or platform economy, and it’s clear, then, that this mobile-centric marketplace of freelance workers has shattered all expectations. The gig economy has transformed and disrupted the global workforce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Project Coordinator at Mobile Agency. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) And 7 reasons that’s awesome. (13)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

Can it be that Silicon Valley (the HBO show) isn’t farcical enough? ” Fred Wilson “ Mobile First ” amongst many other narratives he’s nailed. But by coining it, making a logo and repeating it Salesforce.com became associated with leadership in cloud, um, software.) ” “Ok.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Non-Compete Software 150

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

David is the Mobility Strategist for the U.S. In his role, he is responsible for building for building and growing mobility in the U.S. He is actively accountable for driving strategic mobility initiatives while building key industry partner and relationships. Public Sector market for HP Enterprise Services.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Since raising $3 million in seed funding in September , StrongSalt announced its Open Privacy application for searching and sharing encrypted data in cloud services and enterprise applications. It’s in the heart of Silicon Valley, but against the traffic in the morning. I’d probably be developing a game. Don’t be stressed?—?tomorrow

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Boston still stings from the departure of Y Combinator, the accelerator known for backing Airbnb and Dropbox, in 2009 for Silicon Valley. It then transfers the data to a smartphone, and from there, to the cloud, where it’s crunched and analyzed.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) Irving is home to many companies like Exxon Mobil (#3 no Fortune 500), 7–11 (including 7-Ventures), NEC Corporation of America, and the Microsoft campus (one of the largest campuses in the country).

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Part lives in the cloud and part is embedded in point of sale (POS) software systems. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Objective Logistics has created a game layer on top of very sophisticated scheduling algorithms which increase revenue, save time, and improve customer and staff satisfaction.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Believe it or not this is actually a big story in Silicon Valley right now. For the past few years we’ve had people calling themselves “investors,” who have no experience investing, swanning around the Valley, slinging money at people calling themselves “entrepreneurs” who have never held an actual job, let alone run a company.

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Silicon Valley Las Vegas Angel Investor Startup 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. cheap or free cloud storage (YouTube, DropBox, Facebook). Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. cheap or free cloud storage (YouTube, DropBox, Facebook). and again here. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What he and others have meant is of course that the desktop computer is losing its preeimance as the primary computing platform with the rise of smartphones and tablets at one end and cloud computing (in all its forms) at the other. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

readwrite.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about the decline of consumer Internet companies and the rising interest in companies that sell software to enterprises. And nobody is loving this more than Aaron Levie, the 27-year-old co-founder and CEO of Box, which sells cloud-based data storage and collaboration software to enterprises.

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Silicon Valley Architecture San Francisco Cloud 64

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. ProfessorVC.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

The two big curves that have matured are obvious, social technology and mobile. 1) Mobile creates clash of user experiences. 1) Mobile creates clash of user experiences. how we communicate with the world at a small level, who we maintain a relationship with, and the world at large via broadcast capability.

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Silicon Valley Cloud B2C Mobile 62

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs I know are more like Al Gore. He didn’t get too complicated on the differences of multi-tenant online databases or the power of remote logins when all your data is in the cloud. He has a message he wanted to get across and he did so in a folksy manner. But here’s the thing.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Startup United States 370

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Every year, Microsoft bigwigs trek down to Silicon Valley and brief the VC community on their view of the world and plans for the future. They are kind enough to invite East Coast VCs, not just locals, and so I flew out last week to partake in the annual event alongisde a few hundred of my VC brethren.

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