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

Both Sides of the Table

And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns. That leverage technology or drive change.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). So why did Larry need to return?

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

Feld Thoughts

wherever possible we are strongly encouraging our vendors, service providers and partner businesses to take similar precautions. are moving all clients, visitors, and interviews to remote only meetings and not currently welcoming onsite visitors.

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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. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store.

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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

My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! But he has the added benefit of living in the UK – making him the perfect partner for Nick.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

The gamble was that we could train Professors doing hard-core science, who had never been near a startup or Silicon Valley, to get out of the building and talk to customers and Pivot as easily as someone at a web startup. we couldn’t keep them in Silicon Valley for all 8 weeks, so we tried an experiment in teaching remotely.

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