Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Information Age mentions that the tech sector provides the backbone for the country’s economy. Israel’s tech sector and ecosystem has led to innovation on an unprecedented scale.

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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. Underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Quality works at a thousand times the pace of quantity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. Innovation Clusters.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. Just a quick history refresher.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. That leverage technology or drive change.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Introduced before keynoting at Austin, Texas's Capital Factory Demo Day as "the most-connected person in Silicon Valley," Hoffman gave a really interesting talk about how he handles hiring at his company. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups. I live blogged his talk on Google Plus and offer my notes below.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

A business runs on diligence, passion, and creativity — but it also needs a whole lot of legal help. Lawyers have existed for centuries, and they command high salaries due to the intricacy of their work — so is it really possible to replace them with a few lines of code? But the startup is working diligently to build AI solutions.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. It drove the relentless “do whatever it takes” culture of 20 th century Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. Innovation Clusters.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military.

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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. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” He or she has worked at some very successful big technology or media companies and went to a great school. I saved my main point for last.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. Am I eligible for the PPP Loan? The goal of the program is in the name?—?payroll payroll protection.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2020

by Joseph Heller, CEO & Founder of The/Studio Technologies and SuppliedShop.com. Many shipments have been delayed due to the pandemic, so the sooner you can order your inventory, the better. Joseph Heller is the CEO & Founder of The/Studio Technologies , which operates TheStudio.com and SuppliedShop.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach , and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. Welcome, Logout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. Underestimate the importance of due diligence. Prioritize your tasks, take advantage of technology, and constantly optimize your processes. Quality works at a thousand times the pace of quantity.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). Perhaps the library or a local tech company can host. Angel investors come from a variety of ages, backgrounds, and professions. I’m not your average angel.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. HR – new employee development, a leavers process, vacation request. There are numerous challenges that companies strive to eliminate: Bottlenecks – the slowing or halting of a process at a specific stage due to a human/machine error or difficulty.

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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. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2020

He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure. Write a review (I read them all) or let me know what you think. The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If you’re an entrepreneur or working in a startup, you’ve heard all the hype around the extravagant perks and benefits some companies, especially in the tech scene, are offering. See Also: The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”. Click “reviews.”. Go to Glassdoor.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Earthquakes and talent scarcity in tech hubs like San Francisco, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris and so on could disrupt the business of many tech companies. Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents. Work From Home Jobs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Those were CEOs of public companies and founders or executives of some of the fastest-growing and most successful tech companies in Austin and tech.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Silicon Valley Frontlines. Compensation-wise the biggest challenge is insuring people are respectful of my time and skills (when they don't write real checks for hourly or project work they don't tend to be quite as diligent on this as one would like!). Tech Business Environment. » January 23, 2010.

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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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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? We’re now actively seeking corporate sponsors who want to connect with pertinent companies in the local market. - Publishing notes on local tech events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. And it doesn't have to be technology. They didn't have a lot of technology. You don't have to invent this technology.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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