Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 27, 2012
By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. And a Final Note on Whether Silicon Valley Opportunities Remain. It simply hasn’t played out in history.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. But this quarter-century relationship between the military and universities ended with a bang in 1969.
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The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator , one of the many, many startup accelerators in Europe, is taking the first class of startups who’ve graduated from its six-month program stateside this month. imgZine : a platform for publishing real-time social magazines on mobile devices.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. . “The demographic shift is real and it’s valuable,” he said.
Diego Basch
JULY 12, 2019
Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. A startup that is building a scalable service should not be inventing new technology unless there is no other option. Why be in Silicon Valley at all?
Austin Startup
JULY 14, 2017
Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
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