Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Tristan Walker, VP of Business Development at Foursquare and Silicon Valley diversity advocate, recently pointed out that, "By the year 2040, racial minorities will account for the majority of the United States population." In today’s highly competitive environment, that can be decisive.

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SiliconHills

MAY 13, 2013

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Brandon Knicely, managing director of Portico International and founder of Austin Innovation Partners, has started mid-cap companies and small companies, invested in developing nations and worked for non-profits in New York City.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Maybe it’s easier if you live in a hub like Silicon Valley, but in my experience it is nearly impossible to find people (outside of family) who are really invested in your future and the future of your company. As a lonely entrepreneur, it’s often hard to find mentors in the real world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

It seems to be part of the “fail fast, fail often” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Mentoring and shared advisory board opportunities. Every region has its own culture (Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin), so travel is well worth the cost and time. Equally important to your growth will be new strategic partner relationships with resellers or white label opportunities. Face-to-face time is key.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A few months ago, I joined the Advisory Board of Engine to lend my support to an organization that is doing amazing work for the startup ecosystem. Ultimately, we’re not just Silicon Valley, or Boulder., That’s where Engine Advocacy comes in. At the end of this month, Engine is bringing startups to Washington, D.C.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

Advisory boards: "Many people create an advisory boards and some companies never have an advisory board meeting. My belief is that a rock star advisor can be useful but doesn't belong on the advisory board. That board should be people who have the time to be focused on you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

It seems to be part of the “fail fast, fail often” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Who is moving to Silicon Valley, who got funded and who just pivoted. It’s as if there was no such thing as a ‘new business’ before the internet and silicon valley arrived. It was organised by Ned Dwyer as his startup ‘ Tweaky.com ‘ had just reached profitability.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. We got back into my car for the drive back from San Francisco to our office in Silicon Valley. She was incredibly generous with her time and said that our system might work in their application.

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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. Meredith is an angel investor in Color Genomics and Munchery and sits on the advisory board for zkipster.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Step Five: Have the humility and self-awareness to surround yourself with great mentors, from your angel investors, to your VC investors, to your Advisory Board, to your Board of Directors, and to your CEO or executive coach. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I’ve been blessed by having a lot of very supportive people in Silicon Valley, including you. … I found a lot of people in the Valley have really been there for me when I’ve had questions, “How do you handle this? What do you do with an advisory board?”

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

There are many investors in Silicon Valley that are looking to invest not just in great companies but those that are thinking really big and looking to create and define new categories. We would also welcome seeing more high risk, high reward investing by the firms in Austin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company. Never rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Terman, who now was the Provost of Stanford, had joined the U.S. No one in the Army Signal Corps knew much about computers. (To Order Here. Now In Print!

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. Why is this the case?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

It’s started by Marc Ruxin , a former A&R man for EMI Records who has been on a million advisory boards in the Valley and had several jobs in and around pop culture. The Smart People Can Denounce Bravo's Silicon Valley All They Want. ” Ditto a new company about to launch called TastemakerX.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. This is why a good advisory board and board of directors is key to a success of a business. Large ears signify listening capacity.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?—?where And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many. Adding terrific Advisory Board members can really help mitigate your risk and I spoke about how to treat them (as well as your investors) in The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #1. where I lived for four years?—?play

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advisory Board. Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. He was having too much fun at Sun and turned me down.). Carpe Diem. " Listen.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2010

” Fiduciary X, on whose advisory board I serve, combines peer networking, research, productivity tools, proprietary data sets, and a governance-focused knowledge base with a documents archive to serve fiduciaries and risk managers. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. David: Absolutely.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have already released the feature to a small, select group of beta customers or my customer advisory board, and I am meeting with them to discuss their feedback. Can I Change this Feature Based on the Feedback I Get?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I told him about what I learned from Auren Hoffman, my good friend in Silicon Valley. We’ve also built a large Advisory Board, from DJ Patil to Kelly Wright. We were just in Silicon Valley last week for our Board meeting and spent a lot of time there with both Shasta Ventures and Workday Ventures.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Nobody wants to talk about this because you can get into hot water – I don’t care because there are smart people in Brooklyn who don’t realize that dialect is KILLING them in Silicon Valley. Jeanne Sullivan , co-founder, StarVest Partners, strongly recommends creating an advisory board, especially in the early days.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. But unlike Silicon Valley, we’ve got our own set of problems. That still feels like a huge and worthwhile objective to me. Thanks to Robert Stolk, Pointer Brand Protection ! #9- 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. Photo Credit: Raven Beria.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

RH: Well, and obviously I’m familiar since I’m chairing your advisory board with the feds. And, Reid, you remember ten years ago was really the Silicon Valley when the world was in the middle of the excitement for self-driving cars. So that’s a short summary of what HAI is busy doing.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

RH: Well, and obviously I’m familiar since I’m chairing your advisory board with the feds. And, Reid, you remember ten years ago was really the Silicon Valley when the world was in the middle of the excitement for self-driving cars. So that’s a short summary of what HAI is busy doing.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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MARCH 11, 2013

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