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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Now he’s a leader in social impact investing and equality in education.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2020
Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China. The president was totally dismissive of our technology and manufacturing solution. Small is the new big.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 14, 2011
They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. I did my best to focus the conversation on key concepts like minimum viable product and rapid experimentation. I don't control any government contracts.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. You have to make it easy for them to do so.
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. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. Eren Bali : My name is Eren Bali.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea.
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