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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.). Size the market opportunity. Pick market type (existing, new, resegmented). JustinMind , Balsamiq ).

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. Hackers’ Guide to Silicon Valley.

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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

I came of age with the digital revolution, and by applying my marketing expertise with the science of search, I learned how to start companies. From restaurants to tech companies, I’ve seeded a number of new ventures with my own marketing know-how instead of just cash. By Dan Soha, Five Mill Ventures.

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5 ways to build company culture with a virtual team

The Next Web

or any major market and hire a long-distance employee outside of the particular business centers, you’re doing yourself a service. An employee not locked into the groupthink of the Silicon Valley elite can oftentimes tell you the facts about the real world. However, that’s actually a great advantage.