Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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Our Own Start-up

MAY 21, 2020

iSeed is named as a bridge between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Indian founders. The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are those already established entrepreneurs and Indian founders are those who are in search of money as well as expertise and knowledge of startup.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. They work as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Scalable startups are what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their venture investors aspire to build.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. Show the DoD how to engage Silicon Valley with challenging problems and build networks of people to solve them. Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. In peacetime the U.S.

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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. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. The story to date is a familiar one.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2012

So you’re looking to start up or relocating your company to the wonderful startup haven of Silicon Valley, eh? Well, finding a place in Silicon Valley to call home is not the easiest thing to do, but this infographic from Riviera Partners may help.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

View All Search Results » |. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Financial News. WSJ Classifieds.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Robust startup economies are popping up in communities all over the country, proving that entrepreneurs can succeed outside of Silicon Valley. Diversify your talent search to diversify your team. by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures. Focus on the positives of working for a startup (i.e.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. On September 24 in the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

We don’t really talk about money in Silicon Valley. Just to realize that people experience – or are searching for – economic security in different ways based upon their own personal histories. At least not in public in a personal way with near strangers. What’s the takeaway from this parable?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wired called a new Silicon Valley Gold Rush. Will creation replace search? Then came the directories and as the number of websites started growing exponentially, it gave a rise to search engines. What does it mean for search? Will we search for websites or prompts? Remember the early days of the web?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. Companies that get started and built in Silicon Valley have historically focused on core technology. And what are the lessons for Silicon Valley?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is a comedy series which follows the lives of a computer programmer and his geeky friends as they try to take advantage of the high tech gold rush. One of the characters Richard inadvertently creates a search algorithim in his day job which has huge potential. The Profit.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life. I think big tech hubs like silicon valley will still be highly relevant for securing capital, and for bleeding-edge ideas. It’s easy to vet Silicon Valley hires. Now, it’s the new normal.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2015

There has been a lull in the chanting that “Silicon Valley is the center of the tech universe.” Silicon Valley is a religion, just like Crossfit is a religion. This has stuck with me for a long time and I’ve read many posts about Silicon Valley through this lens. Losing My Religion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As I was reading a history of the startup years of Fairchild Semiconductor , I realized that a problem I thought was new – sales as an obstacle to Pivots – had occurred 50 years ago at the dawn of what would become Silicon Valley. So selling integrated circuits meant a search for a business model. Lessons Learned.

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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. Silicon Valley has great weather and lifestyle, and nobody wants to leave.

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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. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) What you are searching for is not the one-off revenue hits but rather a repeatable pattern that can be replicated by a sales organization selling off a pricelist or by customers coming to your web site.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search. The result?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Eddy Lee, Ph.D, Obtain several quotes for your project from the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Given its inward focus, Berkeley has always been the neglected sibling in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Have you ever entered a conference call to find the host is adjusting his camera or searching for some notes on her desk? Damaris Lasa, Chief Digital Marketing Science Instructor and Learning Consultant at Silicon Valley education startup Green Fig points out, “Evidence suggests people will remember information longer if you use visuals.

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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. Silicon Valley has great weather and lifestyle, and nobody wants to leave.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has long been the barometer for engineering and product talent, but that same caliber of skill that startups need is also available across Asia. Cast a wide net.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2016

I love that the very first review on the Amazon page for the book is from the Los Angeles Times and says “Disrupted by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley today” as it is indicative of the content of the book, which I’d categorize as ironic at best and notionally confused. Other times I don’t.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

On LinkedIn's blog today is a post about the top 10 most sought-after engineering startups in Silicon Valley. To compile the list, the company looked at nearly a quarter million engineer profiles on its service and tracked where they were searching for jobs. Pinterest was number 6.)

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