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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

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. In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

That in turn requires more capital. In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. So, you don't have to be physically in Silicon Valley or San Francisco to honestly get access to the best advice.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. Other sources of capital. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe.