Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 12, 2017

Silicon Valley has a remarkable track record of producing valuable technology companies. Of the 13 high-tech companies in the world that are worth over $100 billion, six of them hail from Silicon Valley. So the question on many minds is, “Where is the next Silicon Valley?”.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Bigfoot Capital. Key elements: .

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Dave Kashen.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. to eliminate siloed, centralized EMR systems through my technology.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. But they also help grow innovation through technology, organization and policy. Smart cities are a new approach to urban development.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The geographic concentration of network effects, jobs, and economic growth in cities is not a new phenomenon, but disparities between the haves and have-nots continue to expand : Workers in cities earned more than 50% higher wages relative to workers outside those cities in 2016 (it was 30% in 1980). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

Startup activity in the United States increased in 2016, continuing an upward trend that began in 2015 , according to the Kauffman Foundation. asks Bruna Martinuzzi, president and founder of Clarion Enterprises. After a meeting with seven investors in Silicon Valley, five responded with rejections and two did not respond.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

So universities have realized that for many students, promising a career in technology and entrepreneurship is key to recruiting high potential students. These could be translated into research programs focused on topical regulatory issues related to emerging technologies. Founder community. I wrote a blog post on this.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In 2016, Altman said in an interview he was prepping for survival in the event of catastrophe such as a rogue AI, claiming to have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defence Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur that he can fly to. It’s a revolution – Get me in – Don’t miss out!

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

But for those who are curious about how Blitzscaling came to be, I thought I’d ask my co-author Chris Yeh to tell the story. The following is a guest post from Chris Yeh, the co-author of Blitzscaling (available everywhere next week on October 9) and The Alliance. We decided to pursue the concept. It was gut-check time.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Qualified.io

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Qualified.io

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Congratulations! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Data from 2016 showed the percentage of job seekers starting their own business was the highest it had been in four years. As marketing specialist Guy Kawasaki said , If you look at the truly great start-ups that have come out of Silicon Valley, they’ve been hyper frugal. This is good news. in the early days, Microsoft.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. It reminds me of living in Silicon Valley 10 years ago when so many foundational SaaS companies were started. In 2016-17, the five largest rounds had an average size of $100 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

Silicon Valley is on a tear, so it might seem like the US is teeming with startups. The University of Alabama at Birmingham points to the healthcare industry as being ripe for disruption through technology. See Also: Five Business Technology Trends for 2017. There’s no better time than now. Purpose and practicality.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Findings were presented at SaaStock 2016- Software is eating the world, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is eating software.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Even after Fowler’s article came to the forefront and investors Freada and Mitch Kapor broke ranks with their silent co-investors in their now-famous open letter , things didn’t get better. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. It’s male founder friendly. Founders have to reckon with that. They got worse.

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