Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. These days they generally do not invest in technology per se, even. They use commodity hardware, and reuse as much software as they can. Why be in Silicon Valley at all?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bill’s closing line, “The reason why Silicon Valley is so successful is that it’s so fxxxng far away from Washington” received great applause. Tech Companies Use Regulatory Capture In my first two decades inside the Silicon Valley bubble we built products people wanted and needed. Your diagram may be more complex.

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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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. In recent months, Silicon Valley has featured quite a bit in the news, as some high-profile household tech companies have been laying off droves of employees.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. The software generates instant dynamic reports, such as financial revenue, gender ratio, and more.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

Thus, as with many other expensive aspects of starting a business, many entrepreneurs like you are turning to software. More realistically, artificial intelligence and computer software will assist lawyers, not replace them entirely. Thus, it seems that software doesn’t pose much of a threat to the law industry.

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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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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. The financial pain of unplanned delays. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It wasn’t long ago that it made sense for companies, and especially Silicon Valley companies, to hire locally and have everyone working from one central location. Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. Real estate was relatively cheap.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. Lifograph CEO Dea Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director at the Silicon Valley Incubator. Dea Wilson, CEO at Lifograph. Dubbed “Ms.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

Software is truly eating the world. Entrepreneurial clusters like Silicon Valley (or NY, Boston, Austin, Beijing, etc.) And for Silicon Valley the investor flight to social media marks the beginning of the end of the era of venture capital-backed big ideas in science and technology.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Though the trend in the startup world seems to be relocating to Silicon Valley (a choice that some angel investors and ven­ture capitalists now call mandatory) and knocking on the doors of venture capital, this path doesn’t make sense for all businesses, and it’s not acces­sible to many entrepreneurs because of their life circumstances.

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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. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. Their engineers hated us.

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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. Companies that get started and built in New York City tend to be applied technology. Women in New York Startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. 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. Saskatchewan is the silicon prairie.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It is now a common sight to see driverless cars undergoing testing on roads in Silicon Valley. In fact, all major computer tech companies are involved in automotive software engineering. . While a lot of companies are developing driverless technology, let’s look at how data is crucial in this field.

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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. Finally – thank you, thank you, thank you to all the mentors helping out next week: Aneesh Chopra, Former US Chief Technology Officer.

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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. Only one decade ago, SaaS products accounted for less than five percent of software. Every software company settled massive budgets to expand and cover any particular bugs.

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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. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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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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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. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. 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.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

But wait, before letting your eyes glaze over or clicking out of here entirely, give me just two minutes of your time to explain – because the opportunity is big and the technology is really cool. The fusion of insurance and technology, so-called insurtech, is one way that’s happening. She’s based in L.A.,

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Web technologies and software expedite the process of development. NYC may not have the notoriety of Silicon Valley but since it’s such a massive hub for business on the East Coast, they make their mark. A startup may spark from a simple idea and quickly grow in momentum due to the ease of launching a product or service.

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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. While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. Recent Investment Themes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.) And they were responsible for helping our 3 rd party software group reach the right application providers to port their software to our computer. They knew the technology trendsetters in their fields and got us in front of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Smart business executives learn to use new technology software to give them new insights and more free time. That’s why smart investors, like the best ones in Silicon Valley, and the ones on Shark Tank , can tell a lot about the future success of a business, even before results. Learn to like the things that need done.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). So why did Larry need to return?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

As transportation becomes more intertwined with technology, there is a shift away from traditional services and towards startups with radical ideas. . Transportation is becoming all about ease, accessibility, and technology. Technology. The “in-vehicle” technology market is expected to grow 6 percent in 2020, to $18.5

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Wired in partnership with Goldman Sachs wrote an article called “The Four Disruptive Technologies Behind the Growth of Fintech” which I found to be generic fluffy clickbait content. QR Codes QR codes are machine-to-machine computer vision technology which will be key in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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