Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs , we decided to take a trip to the startup mecca, looking for opportunities and lessons to learn. Silicon Valley is a hub. Not Businessmen, Entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 Success begets success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? How best can European startups land VC funding in the US / Sillicon Valley? Pitch to your advisors, to US entrepreneurs, to your colleagues, wife, what not. They also do foreign companies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bill’s closing line, “The reason why Silicon Valley is so successful is that it’s so fxxxng far away from Washington” received great applause. But entrepreneurs entering regulated markets need to understand how the game is played, how they can play it, what their VC’s should be doing to help them, and how to win.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen?

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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. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money. An entrepreneur who can’t manage a plan, probably won’t be able to manage the new business.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Who’s an entrepreneur? There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life. The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible. Now, it’s the new normal. Many people are more productive working from home.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. Ironically in Silicon Valley consumer Internet business have become hits driven businesses. And what Hollywood does’t get about Silicon Valley? Think about.

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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. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Now is the time to be an entrepreneur and create a business from your passion. In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. Yet, as an angel investor myself, I can attest that many potential entrepreneurs try to take shortcuts, or ignore the realities of business.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

How and why the State Department is involving the nation’s top innovators in its efforts was the focus of my interview with Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. That’s what you had to do then before the Internet. That was a powerful way of spreading ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. and his personality type seemed to be as the guy who built a wonderful, warm and fuzzy culture of purple at this new-fangled Internet kinda company. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Zynga and others.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. A shortage of engineers is the biggest challenge facing Silicon Valley startups today.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rapid advancements in areas like AI, blockchain , and the Internet of Things (IoT) bring forth new possibilities. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, 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. Premature scaling is the most common reason for startups to perform worse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. Many of the most talented entrepreneurs and engineers left India to study and then work in the US and Canada. Reverse brain drain” “Reverse brain drain” is a real thing in India.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

One of the things I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that you must always focus on three steps ahead, as well as on what exists today. You can’t ignore the key principles preached by every innovative entrepreneur: Build tomorrow’s opportunity rather than extend today’s. Don’t be trapped by linear thinking.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- I think most entrepreneurs are naturally motivated people. Not everyone is a “genius” or enmeshed in the Silicon Valley scene. One way to stay motivated as an entrepreneur is to have a healthy sustainable routine.

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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. 74% of high growth internet startups fail due to premature scaling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. Kevin Dewalt—a speaker at this year''s Lean Startup Conference —is an entrepreneur, investor and adviser who has served as an investor for a strategic U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I remember thinking, “Wow, whoever’s on the other end of phone sounds just like an entrepreneur, they were asking for the impossible.” Given that Silicon Valley had started with scientists and engineers not MBA’s, I thought this was a bet worth making. The answer shot back, “We want the class to start in 90 days,”.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. You can find a lot of great videos, blogs and books on the Internet, but there is still no replacement for direct one-on-one mentoring.

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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). Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. Innovation areas the corporation is interested in.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’ve been noodling on this post for a few months now, trying to find the best way to explain why a decentralized Internet is important and how we might get from here to there. More creative and economic opportunity for developers and entrepreneurs. I had outlined a few reasons why it mattered and might eventually go mainstream: .

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. As Abhishek Rungta from Kolkata pointed out today, "Entrepreneurs do not work out the details of their ideas."

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.

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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. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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