Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Go do a startup.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. For example, we can cruise offshore of potential adversaries (Iraq and Syria) who can’t get to our carriers. In a startup they’d be the founding CEO.) Portfolio: In Horizon 3, the Navy is essentially incubating a startup.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Just read about a new idea to have a boat near Silicon Valley (in international waters) that would serve as a place for entrepreneurs, investors and others to interact with Silicon Valley without visa hassles. In college I considered participating in Semester at Sea (I ended up studying at Kansai Gaidai near Osaka Japan).

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. But, it wasn’t directionally wrong, looking at enormous multinational companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook which rose from the hallowed ground of Silicon Valley.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not-offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. However, the startup CEO must evaluate a number of potential pitfalls, before jumping on the international bandwagon. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. This comment applies especially to manufacturing in China.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in the early 1980’s that they formed Silicon Valley’s first lobbying group. It’s the national cheerleader for startups.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

We have heard that there are tax advantages in doing business offshore. However, the eager startup CEO should consider a number of potential pitfalls, before jumping on the international bandwagon. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. This comment applies especially to manufacturing in China.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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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. Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. Starting now.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it. 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. We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

But what I really wanted to point out is what happens to the 99% of people who work in the startup industry – they get neither of these benefits … 3. I wish founders, startup employees and VCs all paid the same rate of taxes. There are a lot of things the go into the advantages of Silicon Valley and the tech ecosystem.

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