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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

percent year-on-year to US$118,900, according to an infographic from Silicon Valley technical recruiting firm, Riviera Partners. Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

Startup Professionals Musings

Alex is a Silicon Valley veteran and Cisco executive, often referred to as the ‘innovation therapist,’ who details his knowledge of many real-world cases and specifics on how to keep up with change and win in the marketplace. Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset.

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. Why be in Silicon Valley at all?

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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

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. Tech Companies Use Regulatory Capture In my first two decades inside the Silicon Valley bubble we built products people wanted and needed. Get outside advice at each step.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

Both Sides of the Table

And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns. Or pivoted too quickly. I built two companies.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store.