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.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
percent in 1998 to 7.7 Furthermore, skilled software development teams can be created outside of the Silicon Valley, providing the same result at one-tenth of the price. Time was short and the work laborious, meaning that the majority of jobs went to India to save on costs. percent in 2017.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g. Many funds have not performed and will start to disappear. Others will, too.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
I’m an unabashedly pro-Silicon Valley homer. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. And it’s interesting to consider why. Largely American/Western.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
OCTOBER 16, 2011
Ron Conway, known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley and part of SV Angel, came to Campbell to talk some shop, angel investing. Conway’s first fund, Angel Investors I, raised and invested in 1998, generated a 7 times return. He may know a thing or two about funding the next big thing. times return.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. By then it was too late.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.
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