David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Congratulations! Y Combinator.

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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. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2016

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All | The New Yorker – [link] crowdspring.co/1Sy1qO2.

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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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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

She is a Silicon Valley veteran – having been the Senior Director of Engineering at Yodlee, then holding several CTO, Chief Architect, and other engineering leadership roles at a few startups before landing at Shippo in 2016. Over the years, I have had the pleasure of getting to know Sin-Mei over many lunches.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% a16z’s Cultural Leadership Fund aims to “enable more young African-Americans to enter the technology industry.”. We suggest quantifying check size so that your investment preference is clearer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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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. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . So we dedicate the beginning of each of our week to our leadership team meetings and then an “all hands” meeting. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . So we dedicate the beginning of each of our week to our leadership team meetings and then an “all hands” meeting. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

But these requirements have been relaxed with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act implementation in 2016. The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Now many of these 200 participants are fully engaged in careers on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, and in nonprofits, and the stories they tell highlight six key leadership strengths of their guides. Second, guides are adaptable and employ flexible leadership styles. Third, guides empower others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Heather is an outspoken advocate for women in tech leadership roles and building an inclusive and diverse workforce. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2016

Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work and learn for many years in both the corporate environment (IBM), as well as the exploding Silicon Valley startup environment of the 90’s. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/18/2016. A successful business is a long-term effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 50:17) The Heroes Journey, Joseph Campbell (55:03) The need for human connection in leadership and what Brian hopes former employees will take with them into the world. (56:46) 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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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. Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. We don’t think about that in 2016, everybody doesn’t have a smartphone.

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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. Silicon Valley author, investor and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki advocates using LinkedIn to look at everyone’s background and find points of common interest that you can use.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Programs are offered in both online, in-person, and hybrid format with cohorts of leadership teams for an average of 10 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

He spent years in the early days of many great Silicon Valley enterprise software companies including Oracle and McAfee. But he went on run North American sales for Legent where they grew from $28 million to $700 million under his leadership and helped sell the company to CA for nearly $2 billion.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Events and Conferences : Yale Innovation Summit , Yale Cyber Leadership Forum , Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (with focus on innovation). Zoom in on a growth sector and take leadership there. It’s important moving forward that they expand their reach to other regions (particularly Silicon Valley). Incubate non-Yalies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

That’s because Joe brings a wealth of real-world experience and leadership to the role. Our first Hacking for Defense class in 2016 blew past our expectations – and we had set a pretty high bar. Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia. Hacking For Defense.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Silicon Valley and the Bay Area are particular hotspots, with the likes of Paradigm and Project Include seeing female CEOs, investors and other business leaders offering their advice and expertise on meeting diversity targets. Take advice wherever you can find it. According to the most recent US Census Bureau data, 53.2%

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Hearpreneur

JULY 25, 2019

But his interests turned when he returned home from Silicon Valley in 2015, and saw his field sales manager father wasting hours making sense of the data between a hundred Excel sheets. After that point, I quit my job in early 2016 to take the venture full-time, and have grown the company since to have 2 offices, in Raleigh and NYC.

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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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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

You might doubt that last point, but the head of our game studio at Dragon Army moved back to Atlanta (after moving to Silicon Valley for six years) after reading about the Village and thinking, “Wow, there’s a much bigger startup community in Atlanta than when I left!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Ron Klain may know more about the leadership side of pandemic response than almost anyone in the U.S. We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016. I wanted to ask you the same question but from the point of view of leadership. We had the opportunity to act, and our leaders chose not to. Ron Klain : No.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

A Silicon Valley native, for years Brian has been in the business of high stakes match-making, with the mission of bringing the right talent to the right company at the right time. (Fun fact: While at Vanderbilt, Brian played Varsity Football for the Commodores and also served as the Interfraternity Council President).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2018

I finished James Comey’s book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership last night. Everyone who thinks or cares about leadership should read it and allow themselves to process it at a meta-level. As a result, the notion of ethical leadership gets developed and defined throughout the book.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As an investor in The Wing, I have no doubt that Audrey can relate the impossible expectations we set for ambitious women and the nearly non-existant margin for error, especially given that the company took off after the 2016 election. With both leaders, mistakes were certainly made. Hilary Clinton isn’t perfect and neither is Audrey Gelman.

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