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| Page 1 of 11 | Previous | Next | NICK O'NEILL AUGUST 30, 2012 Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars Are existing users/customers referring the product to other people? Entrepreneurship Lying Silicon ValleyIf you read all the comments on this salacious Techcrunch post about a girl who supposedly conned the industry, you’d have two takeaways. ” Seriously? It’s why so many people do it in the first place. | STEVE BLANK MAY 21, 2012 Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley and aim for hundreds of millions of customers. Second, And those customers may be using their devices/apps continuously. This Entrepreneurial clusters like Silicon Valley (or NY, Boston, Austin, Beijing, etc.) Kennedy, September 1962. Innovation. And who can blame them. Facebook and Social Media. and put U.S. What Next. | | | | | |
| STEVE BLANK JUNE 22, 2011 The Internet Might Kill Us All And it appears that at least in Silicon Valley, a larger percentage of money made in the last tech bubble is recirculated back into investments into the next generation of tech startups. A financial institution that can’t stop criminal hackers would have no chance against a military attack to destroy the customer data in their systems. | | FAIRSOFTWARE'S BLOG NOVEMBER 4, 2011 How To Win a Pitch Competition: Not with the Best Idea It shows you have a strategy to acquire customers. You are clearly beyond the “idea stage”, you faced real customers and it looks like customers like your product. Founder Conference Silicon Valley StartupsHint: it’s not about having the best idea. Case in point. ” Would you be interested? | STARTUP ECONOMY MARCH 4, 2009 Silicon Valley Trip - Day 1 Due to the economic downturn and surge of available time, Silicon Valley sees more companies and innovations Entrepreneurs are laser-focused on doing what they're supposed to be doing: improving product and engaging more customers. Tags: startup recession Google Docs Silicon Valley google innovations | | | | | | | |
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FAIRSOFTWARE'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 Why I’ll Buy Facebook Stock: I Saw Virality Firsthand
Makes sense, most of the people who “like” the Startup Conference are in Silicon Valley. But more and more, it’s Facebook that has the key to the customer’s mind. Silicon ValleyI have blogged several times about my experience with advertising on Facebook versus Google. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2010  The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 14: Weapons System 117L and Corona
One company in what is today Silicon Valley would build most of them. The CIA was the customer. The Corona project was run like a startup – a small team, minimum bureaucracy, focussed on a goal and tightly integrated with customer needs. intelligence community were just getting started in Silicon Valley. MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012  Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future
You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. The concise guide is here. MORE >> -
NICK O'NEILL | SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012 There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks
Customers hate it – If you read the HackerNews comments on acquisition stories, they’re all pretty much the same thing: “great, one of my favorite products will cease all development” In other words, you’re abandoning your vision because it failed. Sarah Lacy calls acquihires a payday lending scheme. Of course! MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012  Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?
By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. And a Final Note on Whether Silicon Valley Opportunities Remain. He says. How many ideas like that are left?” MORE >>
- Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
- Panic at the Pivot – Aligning Incentives By Burning the Boats STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
- The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product. STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2009
- Silicon Valley's Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012
- 7 Signs of the Silicon Valley Apocalypse FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012
- The Face of Success, Part I: How the Indians Conquered Silicon Valley FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
- Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011
- Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5) STEVE BLANK | SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013
- Secrets of Silicon Valley's Biggest Investors FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2012
- The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009
- Inside the Mind of a Silicon Valley Investor FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012
- The Silicon Valley Bootstrapper NICK O'NEILL | SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013
- Fixing Silicon Valley's Bias Problem FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
- Is This the End of Silicon Valley? FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
- The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1) STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2013
- 14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project YOUNGUPSTARTS | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
- Superficial Silicon Valley Networking JESSICA MAH | MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008
- Bob Dorf – How Silicon Valley Innovates BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2012
- Open Source Entrepreneurship STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
- Raising Money Using Customer Development STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
- Urbanization of Startups � AGILEVC AGILE VC | FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
- Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
- Silicon Valley, New York, Tel Aviv: Here's the World's Start-up Hubs FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012
- Customer Development is Not a Focus Group STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009
- How Can Israeli Startups Raise Funding in Silicon Valley? VC CAFE | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011
- The Pay-It-Forward Culture: Silicon Valley's Practical Generosity READWRITESTART | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
- It Must Be A Marketing Problem STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
- Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Ron Conway SCOTT EDWARD WALKER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Testing a Start-up 8,000 Miles From Silicon Valley FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
- Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010
- Entrepreneurship for the 99% STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012
- Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2009
- Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
- Why Hinterlands Startups Can’t Get Silicon Valley Funding READWRITESTART | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012
- Reflection: 10 Lessons Learned in 22 Years of Successful Bootstrapping TIM BERRY'S BLOG - PLANNING STARTUPS STORIES | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011
- Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners. STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
- Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
- There’s A New Book In Town And It Tells You How To Work The Silicon Valley ARCTICSTARTUP | WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010
- How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
- Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT. 500 HATS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009
- Business model innovation is making Silicon Valley less important. LIGHTSPEED | MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010
- 5 Reasons to Avoid Silicon Valley FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013
- Starting (Up) in the Big Sky: Fund Raising Outside Silicon Valley READWRITESTART | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011
- Lessons Learned: What is customer development? STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
- In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control ONLINE.WSJ.COM | WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2012
- Inconsistency And Premature Scaling Main Cause For Startup Failure: Blackbox YOUNGUPSTARTS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011
- Entrepreneurs: What's Your Exit Strategy? - allensblog - Typepad ALLEN'S BLOG | SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012
- Some IPO speculation STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010
- Greatest Hits – The Gigaom Interview STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
- Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley READWRITESTART | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2010
- Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs - Silicon Valley: The Next Renaissance READWRITESTART | THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011
- CASH IS KING — C-A-S-H — Friction Cost Reduction — Accountants, Attorneys and Consultants SCALABLE STARTUP | SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2013
- Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
- Now Hear This STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
- The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution. STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
- Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
- China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5) STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013
- U.S. Patent Office Coming to Silicon Valley FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012
- Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers GABRIEL WEINBERG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
- Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010
- Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
- Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012
- Here's Your Chance to Pitch Silicon Valley This May GROWTHINK BLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010
- China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5) STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
- The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009
- The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
- The Achilles Heel of Customer Development ASH MAURYA | TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011
- 7 Powerful Insights From a Silicon Valley Insider FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012
- The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2010
- On Vacation STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2012
- The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009
- Media & Mobile Shine at LAUNCH Silicon Valley Event LIGHTSPEED | THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012
- China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5) STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
- The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5) STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013
- A Case for Strong Entrepreneurs AND Great Ideas - DShen's Blogs DSHEN | SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011
- Customer Development Talk Startup2Startup « Steve Blank STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009
- Customer Development Fireside Chat STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009
- Scientists Unleashed STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
- Less is More, More or Less STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
- Secrets to Great Customer Research FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012
- Walker Twitter Highlights: June 11th – 18th SCOTT EDWARD WALKER | TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2012
- The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 15: Agena – The Secret Space Truck, Ferret’s and Stanford STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010
- Paul Graham on fundraising STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2008
- Customer Development: Past, Present, Future STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
- Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup PLATFORMS AND NETWORKS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2010
- Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2008
- Rocket Science 3: Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley « Steve Blank STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009
- Seller Beware: Customers Have Their Own Agenda MARKET BY NUMBERS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009
- dshen.com | David Shen's Blogs | Location Biases (or I'm a Silicon. DSHEN | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
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