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. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) business models.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn’t replace anything. Gummy is a mobile app where users create Gummies, digital cards people pass to nearby friends. Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?” It wasn’t clear what [Twitter] was.

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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. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley | by Om Malik – [link]. “Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age.” Good data on teen use of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others – [link]. ” – [link].

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. While the networks worked to build platforms to connect the world, they missed how bad actors could exploit them.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

Top Venture Capitalists Leave Silicon Valley, Bet Their Careers On Midwest – crowdspring.co/SEC1rh. A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile – crowdspring.co/1lYw8iS. The Answer to the Organic Reach vs Advertising Problem on Social Media Channels – crowdspring.co/1rTUmdM.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. It was started by serial entrepreneurs Nguyen and Peter Pham, but quickly unraveled over the next couple of years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. It can be a mobile app on a phone. So we as investors, most investors, we call it in Silicon valley, but really what it is, it show us that people need this. So I know what it's like.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. We have just entered the mania phase.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Social food journal Burpple officially launched earlier this week: the iOS application – currently available on the App Store for free – is positioned as a way to remember, organize and explore your food moments with friends on the mobile phone. But if Singapore-based Burpple sounds similar to Foodspotting , it does.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Pingback: swtor swtor sith warrior abilities. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself – [link]. The next five social media trends and their impact on marketing – [link]. Interesting that many small biz owners still not finding much use for social media – [link]. No New Social Network Launched Today – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. What is your mobile strategy? We then captured this conversation again on camera.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Social food journal Burpple officially launched earlier this week: the iOS application – currently available on the App Store for free – is positioned as a way to remember, organize and explore your food moments with friends on the mobile phone. But if Singapore-based Burpple sounds similar to Foodspotting , it does.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Social Media Marketing World. Social Media Strategies Summit. Google I/O.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Read More ».

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. Come join us.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Read More ».

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than one in three people claim to visit social networks when researching a business and their goods. Having adequate capital for growth is a foundational principle of startups in Silicon Valley. Ensure you optimize your website for mobile devices as well. But don’t just rely on paid ads.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. I love seeing non Silicon Valley markets boom as it broadens our country’s innovation hubs. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching. And awesome for NYC that GroupMe will be based there.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But what shaped their world was coming of age with the internet, mobiles devices, and social media. It’s still early, but social scientists predict that educational technology, social networks, and streaming services will frame their world. The last two were the internet and mobile phones.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you’re a non-technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley that’s out of college now, it can be tough to find a technical cofounder. Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. But it’s not hopeless.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of giving a keynote in La Red Innova conference, speaking about mobile search and its impact on ecommerce. Spain is growing also in terms of online and mobile penetration, albeit slowly: Following a surge in 2009, growth is continuing at less than 5% per year. 4) The concept of networking is new here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). social amplification (from which memes are spread) by Twitter and the like; and … commenting. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. and again here. Is this real?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I meet people all the time who have no technical background whatsoever, and they want to start an online business, perhaps build a mobile app, or launch a SaaS product. Enterprise. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Editor’s Picks. Disrupt NYC. The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the business model is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Instead of relocating your business to Silicon Valley or large, expensive tech hubs, staying local helps keep the talents in your local community. Rameet leads Fueled, a top mobile and digital agency, and makes himself available to his resident startup founders on a regular basis as a hands-on mentor.

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Community Seattle New York City Silicon Valley 167

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. ProfessorVC. ► January. (1).

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