YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

It’s an aging adage but it’s true; tech talent can increasingly be found outside of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. All over the world, cities like Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, London, Singapore , and countless others are closing in on Silicon Valley’s previously untouchable position. Expanding tech talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I don’t advise pitching to famous Silicon Valley venture capitalists for major funding until well after your business is a proven hit, and you are looking to scale it up across the country or world-wide. Establish a legal presence and intent via the Internet. Remember that investors tend to fund entrepreneurs, not ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The future of the Internet is video. The founders had been responsible for gaining staggering scale in the past 3 years, having been trail-blazers in building a network of talent and an unrivaled understanding of the YouTube ecosystem. I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. hours of TV / day.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

You can find a lot of great videos, blogs and books on the Internet, but there is still no replacement for direct one-on-one mentoring. The Internet is full of great videos and blogs. Entrepreneurs in San Antonio will drive up to Austin for a day of office hours with guest mentors visiting from Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Is there a CEO?”

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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. Welcome to the Internet bubble.)

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. It was a huge success, we attracted all best names in the community and people loved it! See this ).

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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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”. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. A few days later Gordon became a founder. And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. " Listen.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Despite regularly being named the “Best City to Live” and attracting 150+ new residents every day, Austin’s tech community lags its coastal peers in both investment dollars and successful exits. link]  —  @jyarbrough Third Coast: Can Austin Be The Next Big Tech City? Austin, we have a problem. Sunday 3/12 4pm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. 5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55)

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) You may know it by its final name. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Silicon Valley ethic now runs deep – despite the current tech-lash. Access to knowledge, finance, manufacturing, promotional tools, distribution, logistics, publishing, you name it. It’s all possible for anyone with internet access, imagination and tenacity. To be profitable. To self-fund.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. Jason Cohen is the founder of the WPEngine and Smart Bear Software. Don’t be fooled by the name. Management. The Naive Optimist | RyanCarson.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. But theres no denying the level of support for entrepreneurs that we enjoy.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. MIT Start Lab.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. We’ve had I think an 11-year relationship.

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www.buzzfeed.com

AUGUST 16, 2012

User Name. + Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads. A flood of minimalist sites and services hints at a stripped down future for the internet. Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design. Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads. Follow @buzzfeed.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

A name like 500 Startups says it all. Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. And for some reason this seems like it is seldom talked about in the press as we celebrate every check written and every name attached to them. There is a downside. I assure you.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I hate Silicon Whatever. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. My views are pretty well known.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle).

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work! Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! … Thanks!

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We Konga is another investor darling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. Computing power, new engineering concepts, the reach of the Internet, network capacity, and the proliferation of devices are all increasing exponentially, and innovative engineers and companies are changing the rules of business on a daily basis.

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