Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

As one of the first women VC’s in Silicon Valley she founded Foundation in 1995, and went on to be selected for the Midas List based on her investments. the role of women in Silicon Valley). Kathryn Gould is the co-founder of the VC firm, Foundation Capital and the owner of Battle Mountain Vineyard.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

By Mr Blank’s bubble indicators—some private valuations going up, some sunny reporting, more traffic in Silicon Valley and some venture capitalists doing stupid stuff—the “mania phase&# of the last bubble surely started in August of 1995, at the point of the Netscape IPO. It is also a bad idea now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. I chose a different path.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother getting started.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Prevailing wisdom has it that the path to startup success is shorter and smoother if it leads through Silicon Valley. But Sorenson says this is not necessarily the case.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2018

After “ Toy Story” came out in 1995 and was declared a huge success, employees wondered if Pixar would try its hand at making live-action movies as well. It went like this: “When Apple was just getting started, the team and I loved to go eat at one particular sandwich shop in Silicon Valley. What about TV shows?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Resources.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. “This is the West, sir.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. In the ’80s a home computer was the preserve of wealthy and upper middle class families. Author howerl. Read More ».

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America. This maps well onto entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. In addition, post-World War II German culture’s aversion to direct conflict and warfare led German families to shun traditional wargames.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Prevailing wisdom has it that the path to startup success is shorter and smoother if it leads through Silicon Valley. But Sorenson says this is not necessarily the case.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Prevailing wisdom has it that the path to startup success is shorter and smoother if it leads through Silicon Valley. But Sorenson says this is not necessarily the case.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Bezos chose it in part because it had one crucial requirement—a garage, so that he could boast of having a garage start-up like Silicon Valley legends from Hewlett-Packard on. The garage had actually been converted into a recreation room, but Mr. Bezos figured it was close enough.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Just returned from a golf trip to Bandon Dunes , Oregon.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

He discusses how Indians have managed to achieve success in Silicon Valley, and he starts the post by saying: “ Women, Hispanics and blacks have always been underrepresented in the ranks of the Valley’s tech companies. It seems that the problem I highlighted in my is actually getting worse, particularly in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well. The evidence is that immigrants don’t take jobs, they create them by the millions.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. In other words, your success is contingent upon society functioning properly.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Ok, so I think Im the last guy in Silicon Valley to start a blog. I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. ProfessorVC.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. And it appears that at least in Silicon Valley, a larger percentage of money made in the last tech bubble is recirculated back into investments into the next generation of tech startups. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price.

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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. Fast forward to today.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. It used to be that anyone in the entrepreneurial world had to be keenly cognizant of what was going on in New York City. First, that's where the customers were.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

I want a company that lives up to the original standard that Hewlett-Packard set for Silicon Valley—a great place for high-quality people to work that provides an experience that would continue to benefit them even after they move on to other things. presents a particularly fascinating example of these principles at work.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

There were CEOs and private investors, securities attorneys, the former head of [PriceWaterhouseCooper's] tech practice in Silicon Valley. economy and for maintaining competitiveness, 86% of CEOs surveyed said that going public was a less attractive option for businesses today than in 1995.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? It may sound obvious, but unlike in Silicon Valley, there are not many entrepreneurs from Israel who have built unicorn-sized companies.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 30, 2017

George Gilder said in 1995: “Without immigration over the last 50 years, I would estimate that U.S. He said that in 1995. In his book, Microcosm, The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology , he describes in rich and interesting detail just how Silicon Valley exploded with innovation in the 80’s and beyond.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial.

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