Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Clips from their interviews are below, but first a word about the show: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Channel 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. But imagine if Donna had turned to her VP of Sales at Palm in 1996 and said, “I want to get 10% of the Personal Digital Assistant market by the end of our first year.”

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 203

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship. ProfessorVC. Friday, June 6, 2008. Is it the Horse or Jockey? Hans Hvide at the University of Aberdeen Business School just published a paper, "The Horse or the Jockey?

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San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Market Value (mn). 2009 Revenue (mn). Genzyme Corp.

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IPO Massachusetts New York Silicon Valley 34

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

When starting Career Central in 1996, my team & I identified three qualities that we wanted our employees to possess: tirelessness, selflessness, and fearlessness. We had near-perfect retention up until we sold the company, despite being located in the roaring Silicon Valley job market of the late 1990s.

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Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Hiring Differentiation 138

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. 4 Reasons to Brand Your Business.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74