Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

These four developments, while important to Silicon Valley, are vital to developing regional tech clusters. While the density of Silicon Valley startups can’t be replicated in regions, the barriers of money and resources have disappeared. Why Valley Rules Don’t Work in Regional Economies.

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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. Unlike U.S.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Though the trend in the startup world seems to be relocating to Silicon Valley (a choice that some angel investors and ven­ture capitalists now call mandatory) and knocking on the doors of venture capital, this path doesn’t make sense for all businesses, and it’s not acces­sible to many entrepreneurs because of their life circumstances.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It is now a common sight to see driverless cars undergoing testing on roads in Silicon Valley. In fact, all major computer tech companies are involved in automotive software engineering. . Companies working in automotive software engineering are trying to answer the many questions around self-driving cars.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

And she had a model for a new media company for mobile and wearables. I was struck by something that had been slowly percolating through my head during my entire week – there are a higher percentage of women on the founding teams of New York City startups than in Silicon Valley. And what are the lessons for Silicon Valley?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Consumerization of Business Software. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. People have been selling software over the web for awhile and indirect selling via screensharing and webinar, etc isn’t new.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. .” The approach was clever and novel.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca of all business.

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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. Unlike U.S.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. So you have a great idea for a new mobile app or Web service—but you don’t know anything about coding or developing. What drives sales for online services and mobile apps? Eddy Lee, Ph.D, He is also a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. It is the traditional way seed stage startups get funded in Silicon Valley and it remains difficult and out of reach for most entrepreneurs. and wonder to themselves, “Why can’t I do that?”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.

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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. This closed but very large market means that greater than 90% of Chinese software startups focus exclusively on the Chinese market.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

It’s getting harder to tell what’s a real Silicon Valley startup and what’s a parody – crowdspring.co/1k05eDQ. The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley – crowdspring.co/1qjKWZN. Google Ventures’ Bill Maris on Venture Capital in Silicon Valley | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1v00G51.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. I’m sure you have unique perspective on that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. At the end of the day, Apple isn’t really a software platform company. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2012.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region.

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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. This closed but very large market means that greater than 90% of Chinese software startups focus exclusively on the Chinese market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2014

Silicon Valley Investors, Low Interest Rates, And The Tech Bubble | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1gkKBnb. Ageism In Silicon Valley Is So Bad People In Their 20s Are Getting Cosmetic Surgery – crowdspring.co/1lgVtFQ. 12 Mobile App Development Framework and Tools – crowdspring.co/1kY2fxN.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops - crowdspring.co/188qC9v. Chicago can be better than Silicon Valley (when it comes to promoting women entrepreneurs) | by Sharon Schneider - crowdspring.co/18J09d4. Free Flat UI Kits for Web & Mobile UI Design | Graphic Design Junction - crowdspring.co/18mlo43.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ). when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. how to build an initial sales organization.

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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. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. Douglas has identified about 50 software companies in Costa Rica that may be willing to develop apps on top of the GeoInvenio platform. GeoInvenio. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders? Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley’s Innovation Factory - crowdspring.co/1hyz3sN. The decline of the mobile web - crowdspring.co/1lIlKL4. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Want to create a new habit?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/1pIoZb3. Can this Silicon Valley strategist teach Fortune 500s to share? Mobile Orders Will Make Starbucks Coffee More Addictive Than Ever | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1u8gkKH. How to Tell Your Small-Business Story – crowdspring.co/1u8ovXv.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Jocelyn Goldfein was most recently Engineering Director at Facebook and will talk about how different types of software allow for different types of experimentation. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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