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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

YoungUpstarts

If your company simply focuses on aggregating data without care for the end user’s privacy and national regulations start to exert pressure on unethical data processing your business may be doomed from the start. If the market demands privacy, find new sectors struggling to provide it and throw your hat in the ring.

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[Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are. As for how much in demand such talent are, each qualified candidate can get around four companies competing to land them. Their conclusion? percent over the past year.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

So the goal should be to have some formats that require talent who have become large in their own right and can demand rev shares of 70-90%. You need to roll up videos into aggregated channels, “networks,” that are 30% of your views in the long-run. And production is where Hollywood beats Silicon Valley.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. For several different versions of the on-demand economy in other parts of the world, the term itself may be alien, its implications unknown. Grab In Focus.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs need to hit a happy medium with backers, not giving away too much but not making overly aggressive demands. In Silicon Valley, most boards ultimately make decisions based on a consensus. They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. Patent Trolls.