Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. I think startup communities being simple cheerleaders doesn’t help anyone. Those of us outside Silicon Valley need to make an effort to effect change not just wish for it.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

It’s obviously very large, but most start-up activity is concentrated in a few cities: Bangalore (the “Silicon Valley” of India), Delhi (the 33m strong capital of India), Mumbai (the financial capital) and Chennai. There is definitely an enthusiastic community to build on and I met some very smart crypto founders during my trip!

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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. 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. Our community colleges are excellent as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’ve been noodling on this post for a few months now, trying to find the best way to explain why a decentralized Internet is important and how we might get from here to there. Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). And how might such a Web 3 world look?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. On September 24 in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Make no mistake, there is a small but mighty insurtech community, but the ecosystem is higher on cash than talent. Another great example of innovation comes courtesy of Metromile, a startup right out of Silicon Valley that’s changing the way auto insurance is provided. She’s based in L.A.,

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

That’s what you had to do then before the Internet. One of the shortcomings has been that there is not sufficient connectivity between the policy community in Washington and the innovation community out here at Stanford and Silicon Valley or for that matter on the East Coast or points in between.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more troublr attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. The Internet and all its associated machines and gadgets enable anyone to be connected to anyone else -anytime, anywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Betakit.com, a startup news website, reached out to the Montreal tech community with a list that was developed with all the new up and coming tech companies in 2019. The province has a robust start-up community. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

For me this dates back to pre-Internet days of bulletin boards, CompuServe , Prodigy and the like. If you find the right community it’s a great way to learn, contribute and get to know other people with similar interest. Basically, it’s a topic community discussion board and that’s why people go to AVC.com every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

While many analysts have equated “IoT” (Internet of Things) with wearables, I have long believed that the true value would come more from using cameras, lasers, infrared and sensors to track what is happening in the physical world through the use of technology. He was dogmatic. He was self-assured. He was right. See bullet point 1.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wired called a new Silicon Valley Gold Rush. Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community. Articles, ads, images, videos, voice, graphs, 3D objects, music, scientific papers… all can be created today with AI. Such a milestone!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). This group claims to be the largest angel investment community in the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach? I hate Silicon Whatever. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I was an idiot. Order Here.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. ” Anyone interested in Silicon Valley, what it means, and how it came together should read this book carefully from cover to cover.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Last week I posted an article on peHUB titled How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. The first was to energize the early stage software/Internet entrepreneurial community in Boulder.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. .” Why do I Like the term Growth Hacking? Doesn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

With ~1,500 startups, the Capital Factory community will be all over SXSW! 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. All of Austin is getting ready for SXSW- and that means us too!

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. and the major New York industries across the X-axis (internet, food, retail, fashion, etc.).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more trouble attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. The Internet and all its associated machines and gadgets enable anyone to be connected to anyone else -anytime, anywhere.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. 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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. 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.

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