Founder Operations Silicon Valley Software Engineering 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2020
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. This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. Many more companies have realized they need to become software companies; otherwise, they risk becoming the Nokia or Blackberry of yesteryear. Collaboration tools have improved.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 and are guiding LA 2.0.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. You can see preliminary results of this value creation study below. - Encouraging non-US companies to set up operations in the US.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Customer Development is about testing the founder’s hypothesis about what constitutes product/market fit with the minimum feature set.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. “Oh Would you mind sharing them?
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.
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