Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

It was a great experience to see a relatively new startup hub in action - and thriving. Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Martin is running for Congress in Upstate New York (District 22) as an Independent. He moved his family back to his home town of Little Falls NY in 1999 to be closer to his parents (and his kids grandparents) and then commuted to Silicon Valley for 11 years while running TriNet.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

The benefits of using incubators and accelerators are fairly straightforward: not only do they offer seed capital, but they also help encourage the startup’s success. The amount of capital can vary, ranging from $150,000 and up, and they typically require equity in exchange for the funding.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). I’m not in the e-commerce space, but when I see things like Zappos tagging users as they browse products and then retarget them with ads when their on the new york time, I think “Damn, that’s cool”.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?

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