Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search. The result?

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

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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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wired called a new Silicon Valley Gold Rush. Will creation replace search? Then came the directories and as the number of websites started growing exponentially, it gave a rise to search engines. What does it mean for search? Will we search for websites or prompts? Remember the early days of the web?

Generative AI 117

Generative AI API Open Source Artificial Inteligence 117

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 326

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

View All Search Results » |. 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. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Fight in Silicon Valley: Founders Push for Control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 231

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

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. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. On September 24 in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley Lean Puerto Rico Japan 168

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. Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). And how might such a Web 3 world look?

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Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 271

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The “Internet of Things”.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) Preserve your cash: When you have unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climate,) you can iterate on your mistakes by burning more dollars.

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Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 253

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

Incubator 398

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

China 218

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 218

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Prior to Redbeacon, Ethan worked at Google as Product Manager for Image Search and Google Video. Ethan also the worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and McKinsey & Company. Prior to Redbeacon, Ethan worked at Google as Product Manager for Image Search and Google Video.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Silicon Valley Private Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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North America Accredited Investor Angel Investor Angel Groups 337

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. The google adsense search button gives a feel for the direction of relevant advertising.

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Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review Lean 187

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Dan: Our goal is really to get beyond search social and the inefficiencies that search social and mobile have introduced to us.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

There is a list of the most searched for jobs in Vancouver. or Indeed are used by HR professionals searching to hire within the British Columbia tech industry. Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. target Vancouver for marketing/tech industry job searches.

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Canada Hiring Artificial Inteligence Software Developers 167

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley 163

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 163

Version One Ventures

JULY 5, 2017

To gear up for the summit, you can check out Blockstack Academy for a series of educational videos featuring the founders, Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, on the history of the Internet, distributed systems principles and pitfalls, and a vision for what can be built using systems like Blockstack. We’re already moving full-steam into Q3.

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Portfolio Silicon Valley Canada Artificial Inteligence 100

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.

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Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 300

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Stories about companies with lots of ping pong tables, free yoga classes, gourmet chefs—it’s starting to feel like the TV series “Silicon Valley” is a little too much like the real-life Silicon Valley. See Also: The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”.

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Hiring Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

And the advantages in hardware are precisely why Google had to build the Pixel phone and Google Home because if it cedes hardware dominance to others it would have eventually found its core search business eroding. That was probably one step further away from the Silicon Valley ethos than even Shark Tank! He was dogmatic.

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Security Los Angeles Silicon Valley Video 247

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property. Free Speech.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)? Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I started seriously job searching around September 2016 and blogged about my experience and takeaways during that time. Job search Part 1. Job Search Part 2. My first job offer was on September 29, 2016 from a stranger on Twitter that wanted to grab coffee and talk about my job search.

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Software Engineering Engineer Software Silicon Valley 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Of course not. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 266

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. Doesn’t.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Carpe Diem. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times.

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