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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2020
In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 22, 2023
In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”
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Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it. 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. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. So how did this happen?
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. Starting now.
The Startup Toolkit
AUGUST 30, 2012
You can probably get luckier & beat the odds in the valley, but that feels like fixing the wrong problem, like changing which slot machine you’re playing instead of leaving the casino. Nobody on our team had even heard about startups before YC mysteriously accepted us, and 3 months later we still knew pretty much zilch.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2015
I first met Evangelos Simoudis when he ran IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions Division and then as CEO of his first startup Customer Analytics. During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley.
Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. I couldn’t figure out if I was more perturbed about how casual the comment was or how insightful it was.
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