YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

She might be a “promoter” of your firm in Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys, a member of several associations that interest you, and an avid social media networker, he explains. Third, they have access — and want to gain more access — to influential networks that contain more buyers like them. Second, they’re eager to tell it.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Network without really trying. Weekly events, meetups, and happy hours are business as usual in these communities and provide priceless networking opportunities. When you spend your days working next to like-minded creatives, you’re bound to network without that forced feeling of getting to know someone just to get ahead.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. If you’re motivated enough to start your own business and create something great from a simple idea, then you’re certainly motivated enough to jumpstart a local startup community. Why worry about a startup community?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. GigaOM Structure aims tackle the challenge of understanding how to architect data centers, networks and applications along with the big questions emerging in computing and IT. GigaOM Structure. Computing is everywhere!

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. What do all these groups in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DOD/IC) have in common? Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. North Korea.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself – [link]. The next five social media trends and their impact on marketing – [link]. Interesting that many small biz owners still not finding much use for social media – [link]. No New Social Network Launched Today – [link]. – [link].

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 11, 2010

is an online community that allows entrepreneurs to showcase their ventures and communicate with customers, partners, and investors. Today, I'm writing to you about Vator's upcoming "Splash" showcase, where you'll have an opportunity to pitch Silicon Valley. If you don't recall, Vator.tv

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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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. The development community is a friendly one (for the most part) and you’ll often find many people eager to help you out. But it’s not hopeless. Learn to write code yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As we lead up to the big day, we’re spotlighting speakers who’ll be involved in our hands-on workshops, lightning talks, keynotes, interactive breakout sessions, and other learning and networking events. They want to understand the role of community in a person’s purchasing power, which is crucial to their business model.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

McNealy's background is surprisingly all business, rather than computer science or programming, unlike most members of the Silicon Valley community. It’s now the second biggest social networking site (Facebook passed it recently) with about 125 million unique visitors per month. Charles R.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

Q&A communities have become grown in popularity in recent years with consumer and business offerings being developed at a blistering pace and established players emerging with their own offerings. I am most interested in the generalized Q&A communities, not the expert networks. Search and Q&A are Different.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. There hasn't been a lot of buzz about the service yet, so the people in my network who are using it are the people I'd consider to be tastemakers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). social amplification (from which memes are spread) by Twitter and the like; and … commenting. It exists precisely because there is a network. ” So WoW in a way is his son’s social network. and again here.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We both tapped into our respective networks, asking (almost pleading with) people to join our team and vision. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

3) You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to start a successful startup [or do you?]. Silicon Valley definitely has its advantages – lots of dollars looking for startups, large companies, a startup ecosystem etc. 4) The concept of networking is new here.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. There hasn't been a lot of buzz about the service yet, so the people in my network who are using it are the people I'd consider to be tastemakers.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MARCH 31, 2010

I attended a Silicon Valley Young Professional Women’s Speed Mentoring event. Instead, speed mentoring meant a panel of three women - a librarian by day business woman by night, an A/R executive at an ad network company , and a president of a community college. Tags: Social Networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. ProfessorVC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents. Keiretsu Forum.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. "I startupcto

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. Serious talent.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’ve convinced an entire community to jump off the cliff with you. But even more terrifying is the fact that you’ve convinced an entire community of people you care about to throw themselves off the cliff with you. I also believe that one of the techniques that is underused in Silicon Valley is engaging a team coach.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 15, 2010

The San Jose Business Journal vetted out nominations down to 100 women in the San Jose area who have influenced other women and their community. The evening included a networking cocktail reception, dinner, awards of course, then dessert. I wish that there were more folks to meet during the networking hour.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is important to get involved with different startup networks, conferences, and competitions. Here is a short list of conferences, competitions, and networks to check out for upcoming events. 4) The Startup Conference - It is an annual conference that takes place in Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Those were friends and families. Most definitely.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Silicon Forest, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Hills, Silicon Sandbar. 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.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC. ► January. (1).

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