The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

Issues such as lack of managerial experience, and a weak marketing strategy – or bad timing – are often identified as reasons for failure. Who are my key competitors, what is their market share and how does my product distinguish itself? Only one in ten startups succeed. What problem does my product/idea solve?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined – Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs – reaches only $310 million. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. General Motors had 20%.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Many people, some of whom who hadn’t been able to previous borrow and lend through their existing markets, were able to do so and accumulate assets; others, not satisfied with the yields they were getting in the traditional markets, turn to DeFi to increase their potential returns.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. And they’ve absorbed and analyzed incredible amounts of information about their topic of concern.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. And they’ve absorbed and analyzed incredible amounts of information about their topic of concern.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. Based on the buzz it’s created in the developer community this year, we’d say it has followed through on this promise. And the Docker open-source community may be in the midst of a potentially ugly split.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

We have arguably the largest distributed workforce in the world. We really wanted to build a network of top tier talent, similar to the caliber of talent that’s working in-house at top Silicon Valley tech companies. Our emphasis is on community, not commodity, and it’s about quality, not quantity.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. FutureStack.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you’re a non-technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley that’s out of college now, it can be tough to find a technical cofounder. Be a great product manager, marketer, or whatever your role is, and foster deep connections there. The dot-com bubble had just popped and amazing talent was all over the market.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). This is a long piece, so if you’re not a fan of inside baseball, skip it.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on the venture community. Here’s why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Loading… Markets. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Ironically, the model is a good fit when launching a new product into an existing , well-defined market where the basis of competition is understood, and its customers are known. We had no clue what our market was when we first started. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. The larger Dallas metro-region is the fourth largest in the country and Houston metro-region is the fifth.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Brent Wistrom edits the daily Austin Inno Beat email newsletter , which has emerged over the last five years as a must-read source of information for the city’s startup, entrepreneurial and investment communities The Forrest Files: August 6, 2020 Brent Wistrom is a senior editor at American Inno , overseeing half of Inno’s 14 markets.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2013

Gox then began experiencing a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), where hackers continually hammered the exchange, hoping to cause greater system lag, thus causing an even greater sell-off. Silicon valley is more used to the wild swings and pivots of startups, whether companies or currencies, and takes a longer term view.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The themes we pursue tend to be horizontal in nature and are often driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. From my perspective the results of that obsession is obvious when you look at what each of our companies is doing to change their respective markets.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

It does happen once in a while, but usually only for entrepreneurs who have already spent money promoting their efforts, and a large amount of precious time connecting with their peers and the investment community. The right investor will have specific feedback on pricing models, distribution and market positioning to improve scalability.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. It can’t just be videos on YouTube but I’ll be that YouTube is the distribution platform. think Apple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2018

I spent most of my career in Silicon Valley in the tech industry, about 23 years. I became really inspired at the possibilities of taking some of the best practices for innovation that I learned throughout my career in Silicon Valley and applying them to solving some of the worlds' toughest problems.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing. The booming IPO market proved the model of investing in new companies, as some SBICs cash out at attractive levels. .

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 21, 2022

3- Need in the autism community. My reason for starting my business is that I saw a need in the autism community for specialized and personalized care. I would like to say that I started my business because I saw an opportunity to help businesses with their digital marketing efforts. Thanks to Samantha Stupak, CBH Energetics !

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. I’m 100% certain this would benefit our community and not just the entrepreneurs that work there. It’s what Silicon Valley / San Fran entrepreneurs get for free. Do tell … Tags: Start-up Advice Tech Market Analysis.

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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). Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Community Manager. Marketing Manager. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) And 7 reasons that’s awesome. (13) Email Address.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. I asked him several times what exactly is his TAM (Total Available Market). 30 million market?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. The Internet is full of great videos and blogs.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Twittering laughter fills the air at the new Techstars office on the edge of Chinatown in Boston, as dozens of young engineers, designers, and marketers gather to raise a glass to Katie Rae, a startup veteran with short, curly blond hair and unstoppable energy. Startup accelerators have lost a bit of luster in the past couple of years.

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Technology Boston Cloud Silicon Valley 60

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. These growth factors are: Market. Distribution. High Gross Margins.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review United Kingdom 53

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports. Improving grid management and optimizing power production through different sources and distributed energy production are critical to cost management. The Business of Smart Cities. Examples of Urban Tech.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The misunderstanding is clear from the very first paragraph: While most VCs are busy searching for Unicorns, the mythical $1 billion and up startups that can define a portfolio, there’s a new firm in Silicon Valley looking at the opposite end of the spectrum: modest, cashflow businesses. See what they did?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. You – being members of the technology community. They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. They may not.

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