Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. When the companies merged, those operations also merged. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Special Operations Command) to continue prototyping over the summer. Result: Seven schools have already added Hacking for Defense classes: UC San Diego, University of Pittsburg, University of Southern California, Stanford, University of Rochester, Georgia Tech and Georgetown University. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Entrepreneurs whom I meet aren’t lazy, but when faced with balancing the needs of a business and spending the time networking with investors, it’s a hard tradeoff. Prior to graduate school, Elizabeth was a strategy & operations consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on large healthcare clients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She and Raylene Young, who you'll hear in a minute, have collaborated to form the USDR, The United States Digital Response, activating an entire network of government technologists, lean and agile practitioners, to bring them together with state and local governments solving problems of immediate need. So I'm lucky to have that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities). The chicken has come home to roost.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). Networking (21). infoChachkie. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Corporate Culture (38). Entrepreneur (167). Financial Planning (6). Fundraising (13).

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