Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

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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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

An important reminder: Lean Startup Week is in San Francisco October 30 - November 5 The Lean Startup Week team has been working around the clock to put together a program that will suit the needs of any entrepreneur in any organization, all themed around The Startup Way. See you there!

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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. Most of the projects had a technology component, but few of the entrepreneurs were technologists by training. But some have.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Every time I go to Silicon Valley I’m like, “Oh, this place is great.” Nayeem : I didn’t, no.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. 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. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.) It sounds interesting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. Brad Smith is the CEO of Intuit, one of the most successful software companies in Silicon Valley. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong. It’s very conceivable that they chose to go to Stanford precisely because they are more entrepreneurial by nature and they wanted to be closer to Silicon Valley!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. For example, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) develops excellent technology in the data storage and knowledge management space, led by visionary Chief Technology Officer Hu Yoshida, and has won passionate customers in the process.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. If you’re interested in the topic you should check out the program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. Nowadays Kent is programming again, this time at Facebook, which he describes: “It''s a laboratory. Just, you know, with my bare hands.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age. MyFitnessPal still integrates data from wearable devices and other health apps through its popular application-programming interface , which is one of the most widely adopted tools for other fitness apps to share calorie data.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I was in high school, a classmate and I started a peer mentoring program for our middle school which has grown and flourished. I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 28, 2014

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, strategic finance, tax, and valuation services and support to small to mid-sized companies nationwide, has just announced the launch of their new JumpStart program.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. He also founded and served as chief technology officer of Life Magnetics. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

And as he writes in his blog post On the nature of talent , it was his passion for computer science and problem solving that gave him access to opportunity and brought him to Silicon Valley. Deon was a competitive programmer and two time finalist for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 29, 2011

For chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT professionals, a couple of recommended groups are the ATC’s CIO/CTO roundtable and the Association of IT Professionals (or AITP). Texas Wireless Summit , a statewide event with national ties, from programming led by the ATI.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. We need a center of gravitas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. Nom nom nom. You get a feel for the company “vibe.” Launchpad LA.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years. He was recently honored to be named to the Silicon Valley 100 and 16 Up-and-Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs You Need to Meet. Our Guests.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Our portflio company Etsy has a person who is focused on the office, company culture, and making the work space as comfortable as possible. They called that program Eatsy. " Listen. Yes we can!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Use pair programming and collective code ownership. Pair programming is the most radical, but also the most helpful.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Though he’s been both a CTO and a VP Product and managed large teams before, he built all of Cloze’s initial product himself from the back end through to the presentation layer. His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels. link] leehower.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Catalin Braescu • Jan 9, 2011 minor point : Microsoft : Bill Gates had been programming from age 14, and had been employed as a programmer writing software to control dams at 17. John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv. Rockstar v.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. In this role, she is responsible for advancing equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Our delegation was led by Carl Giordano (CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group) and Greg Becker (CEO of Silicon Valley Bank) and included a number of young Silicon Valley CEO's, VC's, and university representatives. The government is trying to get more entrepreneurial.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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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. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Back then, very few people in the consumer technology world thought about working for or in government. I decided to start a service year program to let the people in the tech industry dip their toes in the waters of government. One example comes from our first year of the Code for America fellowship program.

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