Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

When I was a young man in 1990, I designed and deployed Silicon Graphics’ first wide area network using technology from a little known networking startup called Cisco Systems. The technologies and techniques that I used would prove to be the basis for the next 2 decades of networking architecture. The Time is Now.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

Governments around the world are adopting Digital Infrastructure for growth. 4- Network Marketing. One such industry is the Network Marketing, which entirely depends on customer acquisition. Even in the current scenario, network marketing is booming with the help of their technological advancements. 7- Healthtech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

A common complaint from many non-profits is that both government and private funders would rather spend their dollars on ‘sexy’ causes such as children’s charities, cancer, and heart disease, rather than long-term causes like global warming and erasing hunger in Africa. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

This is critical since the government is moving toward a speedier payment system, which will reduce the time it takes for victims to get compensation. Video marketing will also allow small businesses to distribute the same video content across many platforms, allowing them to serve a wide spectrum of clients at the same time.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

COMMUNICATIONS GIANT ARRIS GROUP BUYS ISRAEL’S BIGBAND NETWORKS FOR $158 MLN. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations. ” – Bob Stanzione, ARRIS Chairman & CEO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2019

A common complaint from many non-profits is that both government and private funders would rather spend their dollars on ‘sexy’ causes such as children’s charities, cancer, and heart disease, rather than long-term causes like global warming and erasing hunger in Africa. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each year, we bring you new case studies from Silicon Valley startups (and beyond), government agencies, and global enterprise companies, along with expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and newcomers alike. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. Even critics of business school will generally acknowledge that attending a top-tier school helps the student build a strong personal network.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. Even critics of business school will generally acknowledge that attending a top-tier school helps the student build a strong personal network.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. This is Out Of the Crisis.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Mobile Data usage on the Network growing 14-15 % QoQ. Apple has a very limited market presence in India, due to high price and limited distribution. Rapid Transition to Data Services : India’s mobile services market is more than US $30 billion per year, placing it in the Top 10 globally. 250 million Internet users.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

But while some of America’s most powerful lawmakers focus on cutting Big Tech down to size, how many of the major challenges we face, as a country and as part of the greater global community, can we solve without major technological activity and innovation? That’s why Ro Khanna’s perspective is valuable in this moment.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. You’ve got a resident power with a huge set network of capabilities. But also, to bring more tech talent into government to really help speed the transformation process.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale. To achieve that vision, we need new technologies; new collaborative strategies between governments, NGOs, and the private sector; new methods of sharing and scaling what works. The short answer is networks and entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2017

A common complaint from many non-profits is that both government and private funders would rather spend their dollars on ‘sexy’ causes such as children’s charities, cancer, and heart disease, rather than long-term causes like global warming and erasing hunger in Africa. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

government commercializes science. and his work helping other Indian entrepreneurs through TiE, the Indus Entrepreneur network. and his work helping other Indian entrepreneurs through TiE, the Indus Entrepreneur network. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As grids become increasingly dominated by Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) like solar, wind, batteries, and EVs, and customer preferences continue to shift toward clean energy, a new wave of utilities and electricity providers will emerge. Some companies in this category: Cloud to Street , Manifest , Sust Global. Bitcoin Mining.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. Follow your network.”. Trust your allies too.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Note that my personal interests and theses (each of which ties into Version One’s firmwide network effects thesis ) are constantly evolving – so this is a perpetual rough draft. Living in Mexico for ~5 years radically changed my view of our global financial system and who gets to participate in it. 1) Open Internet .

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

What's emerging is the new power world, which is much more about things that are made by participation, about upload, and about distribution models. The only people who get anywhere near the action are people who have a UN Grounds Pass or who can afford to go to the Clinton Global Initiative. You couldn't get anywhere near it.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Governance. Flexible VCs also offer investors some of the same advantages as RBI: Clear return expectations : The return cap is a stated multiple of the investment, typically 2-5x. . Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2018

All cars will be electric in 8 years time and we’ll require highly distributed charging facilities where ever a car parks. Every economy in the world, that wants to compete globally, must now build out, connected, post industrial infrastructure. The NBN is a classic example. We, the tax payers, are the losers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2012

First you need to be able to manufacture and distribute the product in volume. Then you have to worry about politics, government regulations, and infrastructure. Hydrogen is a great fuel for cars, but who builds the network of service stations, upgrades vehicle engines, and implements safety regulations?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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