Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2017

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. And she has not only been instrumental to Shippo, but also an extremely valuable resource to other engineering leaders in the Version One family. Functional quality. Defects are cheapest to address when found early.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When he was 21, he came to America to further his education and quickly earned two Masters of Science degrees – the first in Computer Science and the second in Software Engineering. The software generates instant dynamic reports, such as financial revenue, gender ratio, and more. Looking to Solve Problems.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. Lifograph CEO Dea Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director at the Silicon Valley Incubator. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. These four developments, while important to Silicon Valley, are vital to developing regional tech clusters. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

If Marc Andreesen is right (and I happen to believe he is) then talented software developers will soon be the most sought after type of employee for just about any company, whether that company’s main business is building software or not. Get rid of the pre-screening software. Here are some tips to get you started: 1.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

I teach entrepreneurship for ~50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford , Berkeley, and Columbia. Software is truly eating the world. Entrepreneurial clusters like Silicon Valley (or NY, Boston, Austin, Beijing, etc.) Kennedy, September 1962. Innovation. I’m an investor in many of these venture firms.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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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. As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It is now a common sight to see driverless cars undergoing testing on roads in Silicon Valley. In fact, all major computer tech companies are involved in automotive software engineering. . Companies working in automotive software engineering are trying to answer the many questions around self-driving cars.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. – The Torch Program. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem. And what are the lessons for Silicon Valley?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). So why did Larry need to return?

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The Next Web

JUNE 11, 2014

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. There is no other place like Silicon Valley, the tech Mecca of access to great talent, capital and countless prospective clients. For some founders, moving to the Valley is the only option to succeed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. That’s part of the magic of Silicon Valley.”. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Though the trend in the startup world seems to be relocating to Silicon Valley (a choice that some angel investors and ven­ture capitalists now call mandatory) and knocking on the doors of venture capital, this path doesn’t make sense for all businesses, and it’s not acces­sible to many entrepreneurs because of their life circumstances.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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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. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. This is hardly a unique investment category, but that’s because the shift in how software is purchased and delivered has been so fundamentally transforming. Recent Investment Themes. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. It is the traditional way seed stage startups get funded in Silicon Valley and it remains difficult and out of reach for most entrepreneurs. and wonder to themselves, “Why can’t I do that?”

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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