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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Six Types of Startups – Pick One. Lifestyle Startups: Work to Live their Passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. They work as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.). How To Build a Web Startup – The Lean LaunchPad Edition.

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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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How To Get Hired At A Startup Without Experience

YoungUpstarts

Joining a startup is no mystery. Rules when followed will give you access to the Silicon Valley world, where you can wear shorts and slippers to work. Also the fact that you can brag to your friends who are in corporate that you are working in a fast growing startup that is about to change the world. Pre-interview.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

Paul Graham’s Startup Curve – avoid the “through of sorrow”! Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed. First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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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. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

For the past decade, Capital Factory has been building a pipeline of tech startups and investment rights and now we’re opening up to everyone through AngelList. A “who’s who” list of Silicon Valley leaders moving to ATX This shift did not happen overnight?—?it Joe Lonsdale relocates 8VC and Jim Breyer relocates Breyer Capital.