Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Context here.)

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Robust startup economies are popping up in communities all over the country, proving that entrepreneurs can succeed outside of Silicon Valley. stars*, Tech Elevator, Bunker Labs and others in your community which provide access to diverse developers, business leaders, mentors, and board members. Foster what you find.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

We’re all too familiar with the very real gender gap within the tech community. Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

We don’t really talk about money in Silicon Valley. We *speculate* about people and wealth a s**t-ton – based upon a company’s last fundraise, based upon current stock price, based on the market price of BTC – but we don’t really talk our own situations, challenges, learnings.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2020

The company is known as the most active investor in Silicon Valley. Will Decker has expertise advising companies large and small on strategy, product, marketing, and business development. A solution that lets the company get faster to market and find a better solution that’s more nimble? That’s just the start.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For an increasing number of successful startups, they are foregoing London, New York, or Silicon Valley for the business-friendly UAE. In fact, some have dubbed it the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. The competition is fierce and investors are just as savvy here as they are in London or Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a business development role you’re out shaping the perception of your company in the market (networking), determining leads, and contacting leads. Strategy and Operations roles: These roles help make sure vision, resources (budgets and people), and the market opportunity are aligned. At small companies, you wear many hats at once.

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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. billion people, India itself represents a massive market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description. I can’t imagine a U.S.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I had this discussion with Steve with the camera rolling and we talked about “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” as place that largely grew out of defense and government spending plus research labs around the Stanford campus.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand. Some examples include: Organize a local market research campaign (best for services that involve connecting businesses with customers). Eddy Lee, Ph.D,

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Web Silicon Valley Salary Demand 160

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Tech companies need advertising, marketing, public relations, and technical sales professionals. target Vancouver for marketing/tech industry job searches. The province has a robust start-up community. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A stock market crash is a breath away from draining the cash hoards of popular venture capitalists, the Securities Exchange Commission could easily change its rules to cripple the startup ecosystem and we are one serious privacy breach away from Congress enacting Draconian laws that could cripple a world they know nothing about.

Silicon Valley 144

Silicon Valley San Francisco Securities and Exchange Commission New York City 144

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description. I can’t imagine a U.S.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

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. Boston is a great place to start and build a company. The Grand-daddy.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later. In just one week — Fare, the #3 player in the market, closed up shop in Austin. We’re assuming this was 5–10% of the Uber/Lyft shift.

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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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Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review XML 54

Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. It was a growing community of people who enjoyed their digital nomad lifestyle. Small cafes, family-owned restaurants and artisan shops flourish.

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Technical Review Croatia San Francisco Software Review 132

Gust

DECEMBER 14, 2013

While there are differences in the startup communities on the two coasts, and while there are definite differences in the investment communities, I’ve found much less of a difference in the types of companies being started. Uncategorized investments new york silicon valley startups tech'

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Historically, while unicorn startups rightfully garner a lot of media attention and interest throughout the venture capital (VC) community, smart investors have spread their money around among a large number of startups, both large and small. So, no: VC funding isn’t such a rare thing in Silicon Valley or anywhere else.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Later Stage 86

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Living and working in the SF Bay Area, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who are incredibly generous with their time and knowledge…Volley offers the chance to open this Silicon Valley dynamic to community after community after community.”. We led the Volley pre-Seed round.

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Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley Stealth Term Sheet 151

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For example, it’s not unusual for tech talent in Silicon Valley to move from job to job fairly quickly, so don’t automatically hold job-hopping against those candidates. Austin has a relatively small tech community, so reputation is a stronger factor there than it would be in a huge market like New York City.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Official SXSW Panels and Speakers SXSW Badge Required Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene MAR 8, 2019 | 12:30PM?—?1:30PM The SXSW Startup Crawl!

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The limited partners could put their money in the stock market, but instead, they give it to you, the venture capitalist, which is much more risky, but you’re promising them huge returns. — Getting Keen Home’s smart vent to market was no small task. So there’s what called spot market, and a futures market (for parts).

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Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A stock market crash is a breath away from draining the cash hoards of popular venture capitalists, the Securities Exchange Commission could easily change its rules to cripple the startup ecosystem and we are one serious privacy breach away from Congress enacting Draconian laws that could cripple a world they know nothing about.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley San Francisco Securities and Exchange Commission New York City 97

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The place – finding a community where you can thrive. One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. You can find other good ones these days in almost every community and university campus. Building a business requires funding – for inventory, marketing, and operations.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator Merger 348

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. I kind of think LA is just LA and doesn’t need some clever marketing term. That seems very Brad to me.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup’s best friend – [link]. Twitter Link Roundup #91 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

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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