Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During my time in Silicon Valley, I was struck by the fact that most successful entrepreneurs seemed to personally know and regularly hear from all the “movers and shakers” who had the investment capital and leadership they needed. I’m a believer in the old saying that investors look for great people, more than great ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

It seems to be part of the “fail fast, fail often” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Create a market you can’t supply and support.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. In recent months, Silicon Valley has featured quite a bit in the news, as some high-profile household tech companies have been laying off droves of employees.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2017

Today Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced their support for Global EIR , a cause for which I care deeply. And there is still an overwhelming demand of visionary international founders that want to start companies in the US. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It wasn’t long ago that it made sense for companies, and especially Silicon Valley companies, to hire locally and have everyone working from one central location. Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. Real estate was relatively cheap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

It seems to be part of the “fail fast, fail often” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Create a market you can’t supply and support.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Yet, navigating this landscape requires more than just a unique product or service. Rise of Global Tech Hubs An exciting shift in recent years is the emergence of new technological hubs across the globe.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Robust startup economies are popping up in communities all over the country, proving that entrepreneurs can succeed outside of Silicon Valley. However, with this growth comes higher demand and more competition for top talent. by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Founders cant demand such concessions unless their companies are doing well.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. A shortage of engineers is the biggest challenge facing Silicon Valley startups today. Toyota is a software company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Like startup investors several layers deep, parent company executives often demand approval rights and exert their power, without understanding the issues of starting a new business. Every such deal was an exception. Key operational and pivot decisions require corporate approval. I still enjoy the journey as well as the destination.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work. We’d add a new category, Horizon 0, which kills ideas that are not viable or feasible (something that Silicon Valley is tremendously efficient at doing). Solution 5 : The reality is that the DoD/IC is not Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

In addition, global scaling will likely require additional investors, who will demand to see real revenue and customer demand. With these steps, you really don’t need a rich uncle or a benefactor in Silicon Valley these days to start your own business, and keep ahead of the crowd.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Step 1: Test your demand. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand. You can find out whether your idea will succeed ahead of time by gauging the potential demand for your product or service.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, in June released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It is the traditional way seed stage startups get funded in Silicon Valley and it remains difficult and out of reach for most entrepreneurs. Here in Silicon Valley the rule-makers define smart teams solely based on pedigree. Traction is evidence of customer demand proven with growth data. What makes a smart team?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2020

While the increase in high demand affects retailers like you, it also affects manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers in a big way. The/Studio is a Silicon Valley venture backed startup that is focused on democratizing manufacturing and supply chain for SMBs. Make sure you choose to work with a reliable supplier.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Silicon Valley itself was built on the sciences with a foundation of trial-and-error and then improving the model and trying again. I believe this scientific method and trial-and-error approach is one of Silicon Valley’s most valuable strengths. Could big business accept its own creative destruction?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Tech Association listed five tech jobs in high demand until 2021. In 2018 seven of the most well-paying in-demand occupations required a digital or technical background.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. Silicon Valley has great weather and lifestyle, and nobody wants to leave.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Every person, company, and product relies on transportation daily—creating a powerful demand. The global on-demand transportation market is expected to reach USD $304.97 Keep in mind that tech businesses are successful all around the nation, not just in Silicon Valley. Transportation industry projected growth.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

venture capital investing activity, Silicon Valley is the nation’s unrivaled tech early technology investing epicenter. But it does beg the question: Has Silicon Valley become so dominant - has it so separated itself - that the best opportunities can only be found there? With 41% of all U.S. Great for them. Of course not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Was there consumer demand? I also got the insights of her biggest champion from within Andreessen Horowitz, Margit Wennmachers , who talked me through when she first met Meredith, how she’s grown, the maturity of Meredith to interact with Silicon Valley’s good & great and be nonplussed about it. No brainer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. An untapped pool of demand is waiting for this to come along now, right? Steve Hoffman (07:08): Your, your most important task at the beginning is to be a demand hunter to go into the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. And there are very few people who so consistently exceed my expectations when I hear them speak. 48:30 Vanity metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. Silicon Valley has great weather and lifestyle, and nobody wants to leave.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this. We just announced a few more things.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

Just like everything else, VC investment is subject to the whims of supply and demand. It’s an aging adage but it’s true; tech talent can increasingly be found outside of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. Cheaper capital costs. This is boosting access and reach for entrepreneurs to the global pot of available funding.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later. In our view, this is optimizing supply and demand in its purest form — we don’t get any extra benefit from the inflated pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Never create a market you can’t supply and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Examples of some leaders in this space include Mike Maples in Silicon Valley and David S. These Angels typically don’t demand board seats, and are not as heavy-handed as VCs. I see now emerging a new wave of investors, popularly known as “super-Angels,” micro-VCs, or “super-seed” investors. Marty Zwilling.

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