YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world. Even if are not a software developer, hardware hacker or bio engineer – I am confident that you know people who are.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. All the ingredients for Indian SaaS dominance are here: From producing some of the world’s best developers to competing on cost and producing quality products of global standard.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. So you have a great idea for a new mobile app or Web service—but you don’t know anything about coding or developing. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand. and overseas developers.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2018

Traveling internationally for conferences always provides a more diverse perspective on where we are headed in business and technology. At the rate it’s growing, Toronto will have more technology jobs than Silicon Valley within the next two years. Canadian Government Sees Economic Potential.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I made that comment at Div Hackathon, a yearly diversity hackathon at Huston-Tillotson University (an HBCU and the first institute of higher-education in Austin, TX), during SXSW to introduce Black and Brown kids to the technology industry. I went to a tech job fair and picked up a flyer for a software engineer role at IBM.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. Entrepreneurship and innovation in what I call “Chilecon Valley” is being talked about continually here. Teaching in Chile. Valaparaiso houses.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

To begin with, the product development model completely ignores a fundamental truth about startups and new products. The greatest risk in startups —and hence the greatest cause of failure—is not the technology risk of developing a product but in the risk of developing customers and markets. The products sold themselves.

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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. Funding, too, was a challenge. Research, research, research.

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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. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. Because Vivek Wadhwa has just written a piece on TechCrunch that “proves&# the nurture argument quantitatively.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Want to create a new habit?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We accidently had a product with the Novelty Effect. The Novelty effect? It was fun watching it happen.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

VCs in Angels’ Clothing: The Sneaky New Trend of “Deal Scouts” in Silicon Valley - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The dirty secret behind the incubator boom - [link]. Startup Founders: Don’t Freak Out - [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." LG is licensing the technology and many other device vendors are in the queue.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 22, 2013

Shocking as it may be to tech reporters and the chattering class of Silicon Valley, consumers clearly don’t give a s**t about the fact that the Samsung S4 has a plastic back cover that, like all it’s stamped aluminum competitors, will get covered with a case. cast aside their success and start over?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup’s best friend – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link]. Functions over Titles – [link]. Agreeable Guys* Finish Last – [link].

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Today, women at tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Apple participate in making technological advances nearly every day. The summer after my first year of college, I worked at SAP as a Software Development Intern. The work place sexism at tech companies is what scares young women away from entering tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Peter Thiel on The Future of Legal Technology – [link]. Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do | Fortune Tech – [link]. Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google | Fortune Tech – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link]. Good advice from @BeckyMcCray about creativity and resourcefulness in business – [link]. Breaking in a new employee?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. The rise of the “sapling round” in technology startups | Be a Force of Good - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link].

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

There are tons of profitable businesses that I believe can improve the world: better and cheaper medical technology, cleaner / less risky transportation, applications to help people avoid financial suicide, etc. I’ve been around Silicon Valley for a while so I’m connected to many engineers and investors whom I deeply respect.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. Email readers continue here.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Ex-Googlers at almost every Silicon Valley startup & VC – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Interesting results in Google’s research for what it takes to be a better boss at Google – [link].

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. What Michelle wanted to get out of it was to get experience pitching to VCs and to build a better relationship with Prof. Tom Eisenmann.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

There are several great examples of technology startups that do this. Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case. But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. 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. WSJ Classroom.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

A few things have happened recently to cause me to look a little closer at NY for the next amazing companies in Internet technology. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. The transformation in the economy has been profound.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. The guest speaker was a well known and highly successful Silicon Valley veteran: Tony Zingale, President and CEO of Mercury Interactive. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. ▼ 2006. (7).

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