Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

For aspiring entrepreneurs, it’s hard to resist the allure of Silicon Valley. The access to some of the world’s brightest minds in technology, the proximity to some of the industry’s most influential brands, and the vast networking opportunities in both start-up and investor communities is hard to ignore. While the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. 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?

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View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

I think VCs will gravitate even more towards repeat founders with prior success, and will be more gun shy about backing someone that is difficult to reference within their networks. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.

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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. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. But network effects can be an integral component of business-focused services as well.

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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. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. like WeChat.). Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2012

The TechStars Patriot Boot Camp is made possible by sponsors: Kauffman Foundation , Kauffman FastTrac , SoftLayer , Silicon Valley Bank , Georgetown University , and Prediculous. Charles Kelly, Silicon Valley Bank. Patrick Riley, Global Accelerator Network. Sean Stone, Silicon Valley Bank.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

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. Women have built a network of women mentors? And what are the lessons for Silicon Valley? Lessons Learned.

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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

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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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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. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. like WeChat.). Competition.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Their high value add model is one of the inspirations for Forward Partners so when I saw that former Summit Partners VC Peter Sims had written an analysis of how they are disrupting Silicon Valley I clicked straight through. I will shortly get to the reasons Peter gives for their success.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If you really want to make it, you need to go somewhere that allows you to network with the thriving tech community. Everyone knows that Silicon Valley has been, historically speaking, the source of much innovation. There is just one problem – you can’t do it alone. San Francisco is already well publicized.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software. I rarely only read the post.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Official SXSW Panels and Speakers SXSW Badge Required Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene MAR 8, 2019 | 12:30PM?—?1:30PM Vanessa Dawson, Integris Software C.E.O, See hundreds of exhibitors and demonstrations across every industry and technology.

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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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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Foreign visitors to Silicon Valley continually mention how willing we are to help, network and connect strangers. Over the next two decades, other groups -- Russian, Israeli, etc. -- followed with their own networks. We take it so for granted we never even to bother to talk about it. It's the "Pay-It-Forward" culture.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

In March, Ross and I will be hosting a talk at South by Southwest; it’s called “ Third Coast: How to be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# We have been thinking a lot about this lately and discussing the challenges we have faced on our own path. Here’s how we viewed each of these: Networking was critical to us.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Given the gold rush going on in Silicon Valley right now, it’s not surprising that some young entrepreneurs think it’s time to drop out and start a company. You do not have to go to college to be an entrepreneur and you do not have to go to college to develop software. Not surprising, but still stupid.

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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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Your dentist may want to invest in your new software, but she doesn’t know what SaaS is, and Software as a Service doesn’t help her, either. It doesn’t have to be at a formal networking event. I’m not your average angel. I’m not active in an angel group.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. Douglas has identified about 50 software companies in Costa Rica that may be willing to develop apps on top of the GeoInvenio platform. GeoInvenio.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. It sounds interesting.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley was an Oxymoron A key premise of our new company was that our video compression and authoring technology would revolutionize how games were made and played. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy.

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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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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. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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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. For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2011

Probably nowhere else in the world is the idea of a startup happy place more entrenched than in Silicon Valley, where one electrical engineering professor, Frederick Terman, spawned an entire culture of new ventures back in the 1950s.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Transformify expanded to 150+ countries , but I still rely on the network I’ve built back then when we plan to enter new markets or need a warm intro to a potential client on the other side of the world. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Running a startup in New York or Silicon Valley is very expensive, so no wonder that recently, there has been an explosion of new locations starting to see growth in tech startups. Learn more about new business approaches and management software. Use scheduling software for social media and be consistent.

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