Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each year, we bring you new case studies from Silicon Valley startups (and beyond), government agencies, and global enterprise companies, along with expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and newcomers alike. Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. We’ll also be offering Speed Mentoring on Nov.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society were grappling with. If you can’t see the SeaWatch slides click here. He runs H4X Labs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

Pete Newell, Joe Felter and I met over coffee in 2016 to discuss our common goal – how to get students in research universities who would never consider working on national security problems engaged in keeping the country safe and secure. Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did. And why I did it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. And anybody with any common sense knows that Trumpism represents the last vestiges of blatant sexism and accepted sexual misconduct in our country as women play a more dominant role in our workforce and in our government.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, 6:00PM JW Marriott?—?Room Markets with innovation hit drawbacks.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

As of 2016, the Kauffman Foundation found that certain cities are emerging as the new American tech hubs. In 2016, Miami posted a startup density of 113 small tech firms per every thousand companies, and the city’s rate of new entrepreneurs is nearly 0.5 percent, higher than San Francisco. San Francisco. Washington, D.C.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups. Silicon Valley, California, USA. Top 10 Hot Incubators to Join in Silicon Valley. AngelList Silicon Valley.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S. has been down about 10% over the past 15 years.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government as well as the larger issues civil society was grappling with. If you can’t see the EmbargoNK slides click here. Origins of Hacking For Defense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016. We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. They put in place measures to try to prevent the worst-case scenario, and yet our government has bungled and stumbled into the kind of disaster that we're seeing now. It sounds like a career. No, no, no, no.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I Our first Hacking for Defense class in 2016 blew past our expectations – and we had set a pretty high bar. Hacking For Defense.

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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. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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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. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

A member of the House of Representatives (D – CA) since 2016, Khanna is one of just a handful of current Congresspeople who has experience working in the tech industry. ” I’ve always viewed government as the necessary platform for creating and maintaining the conditions for productive markets and entrepreneurship.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 15, 2017

Here you go: Hunter Walk: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” — was it the 2016 Presidential election outcome which started you towards running for Governor of Maryland or had you been considering it prior? Thought the best way to share my enthusiasm would be a Five Question interview.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. As the third U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Steve is CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. Riverside Acceleration Capital : Closed Fund I for $50m in 2016. Fund II has raised over $100m as of mid-2019. .

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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. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Rapid urbanization is a crisis.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. Bill Gurley : Oh, absolutely.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2016

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Who will create tomorrow’s Twitter, Facebook, or Google? Today it is just as likely to be someone born in Beijing or Jaipur as it is to be someone from Boston or Boulder. Colorado is home to many.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

RD: After the 2016 election this is going to sound obvious but: our social network framework has created an easily-manipulatable environment that allows the loudest voices to get the most attention, facts be damned. After 2016, I think attitudes on that have changed too, because now it’s affecting all types of people.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 21, 2017

Data analysis of my 2017 calendar would suggest a strong correlation between drives down to Silicon Valley and the Crooked Media podcast schedule. That’s also why the libertarian view that things would be better if government just got out of the way isn’t always true. It’s really the only way to deal with 101 traffic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! In 2016, I take this very seriously. There's also a movement afoot in Silicon Valley for startups to give their employees the day off Monday and Tuesday so everyone can both vote and help in their communities to get out the vote. The list goes on.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Using billions of rows of data, media data analyst Steve El-Sharawy will reveal the pattern of polarisation across US media both before and after the 2016 Presidential election. Silicon Valley 2.0: Scheduled at 12:30 pm in Salon H at the JW Marriott. How Will Trump Steer Car and Transportation Tech? industries.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2018

I noticed him during the 2016 election around the Hillary Clinton investigation – both when he announced it, ended it, re-opened it again, and closed it again. I’m going to use the reaction people had to Emily Chang’s book Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley to frame my view of Comey’s book.

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