Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Seemed such a fantasy back in 1992. Then I found out that Dave McClure had already invested along with many others in a Silicon Valley seed round even though the company is in Alabama. Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

During her career she made a big point of not telling you: she was one of the first women Venture Capitalist’s in Silicon Valley (along with M.J. When I was where you are, 36 years ago (can ya believe it) I didn’t have a plan—but I did have an aspiration: I wanted to go to Silicon Valley and I wanted to work in startups.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs I know are more like Al Gore. Think of James Carville’s slogan for Clinton in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He has a message he wanted to get across and he did so in a folksy manner. But here’s the thing. They have very accomplished backgrounds.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. And the board, being enamored with Silicon Valley technology, first mover advantage and concerned about the huge price gap between a VCR and TiVo, agreed.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Then in 1992 we moved to Eugene, Oregon. At least Palo Alto sort of says Stanford and Silicon Valley. I’ve got a pots and kettles problem with this one, because my wife and I named our company Palo Alto Software, while we were in Palo Alto, California. Moving is easier than renaming. Or Drain, Oregon. Or Hell, Michigan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Since 1992, Congress has diverted nearly $1 billion in applicant-paid fees already earned by the USPTO to other uses (like the 2010 census), leaving the patent office unable to deal with the threefold increase in patent applications over the last 20 years. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog.

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