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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

Both Sides of the Table

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. That leverage technology or drive change. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Growth, again.

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What does a CTO do?

www.lanceglasser.com

What does a CTO do? Operations and Manufacturing. Silicon Valley melting pot. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? First it is to ensure that the company has the best technology. What goes around.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Both Sides of the Table

Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Stuart was a co-founder at my first startup company and ended up running global operations. But last week did see one of my closest family members – David Lapter – join MakeSpace as their CFO & SVP of Business Operations.

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Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19

Feld Thoughts

The post Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology.