Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

The big debate among tech circles has always been if it’s possible to build a “Silicon Valley” company outside of the Valley. Is Silicon Valley a physical place or a state of mind ? Smaller start-ups in Silicon Valley, particularly those in un-sexy markets, have a tough time drawing in top engineers and designers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project – the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. could design and produce.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” The I-Corps Incubator Program. The mentors in our program are there to support the methodology, but aren’t there to tell stories.). billion U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Build a simple website using easy, no-coding-required tools like Wix for great-looking, interactive pages, or LaunchRock for sites specifically designed to collect feedback on ideas. Eddy Lee, Ph.D, Obtain several quotes for your project from the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

We don’t really talk about money in Silicon Valley. It’s why we counsel founders to understand the situation of a potential employee when designing a compensation package (in ways that remain legal and appropriate). I signed my daughter up for the major airlines frequent flyer programs when she was born.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Their seniors just completed the school’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in evidence-based entrepreneurship. One of their mentors, a professional UX designer, encouraged the kids, “You have the facts. Hawken School has now given us an answer. — Teaching students to think like entrepreneurs not accountants.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley.in the world according to @ bravotv there are no Asians or Indians in Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages. What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In class I teased Todd that while the Navy had me present my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk in front of 4,000 cadets at the Naval Post Graduate School , I had yet to hear from the Air Force Academy. And they were the ones who had given the program office the requirements from the outset. Well, their bosses had.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Given its inward focus, Berkeley has always been the neglected sibling in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. wouldn’t interfere.

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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. And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? And so that book, the book is designed to give entrepreneurs really practical and concrete advice on how to avoid all the pitfalls of doing a startup and act and come out on top. [17:14] Are there any traits that you think make somebody more likely to succeed? [18:05]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. If you can’t see the slides click here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The team created a referral program that allowed users to earn more storage for recommending Dropbox to their friends. Similarly, Dropbox’s referral program might have fallen flat if people had to personally pester their friends. It makes it easy for users to claim their incentive (via a link), and it makes the program cumulative.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley.in the world according to @ bravotv there are no Asians or Indians in Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. Words To Live By. and each book costs $375 retail.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They were one of the first companies to sell an external disk drive for the original Mac; they had the first “color paint programs” for the Mac; and when the Mac was just black and white they had the first color graphics boards and large screen color monitors for the Mac. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. were unemployed in other parts of the word and deserved to be given a chance to learn and develop their skills with a fast-growing well-funded startup based out of Silicon Valley for example.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. By 1947 the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. First up, Manik Kinra from Bangalore, India, pitched Jade Magnet , a crowd sourcing platform for creative services like logo design, website development, animation, video production, etc. They will also share how they are using the 1M/1M program in that journey.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) He had spent 12 years at DEC , first as a hardware engineer designing part of the PDP-16 , then as the marketing manager for the LSI-11 and then into sales.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2011

Both ReadWriteWeb COO Sean Ammirati and I are active in our respective communities' entrepreneur mentoring programs, and we always enjoy seeing how other localities help nurture their budding startups. The camp is an intensive 10-week summer program designed to immerse university startups and entrepreneurs into the Silicon Valley environment.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. Look at the early Silicon Valley companies – Homebrew Club =>PCs. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

That may seem intimidating, but programming is not some monumental skill that only specially gifted people can learn. The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. The program lasts 10 weeks and has tuition of $12,000.

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David Cohen

MAY 17, 2013

This will be the second year for the event, an intense three-day program designed to teach and mentor Veterans and Service Members about entrepreneurship and help them build and develop innovative technology companies. We are also grateful to all of our speakers and mentors for graciously volunteering their time and expertise.

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