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“Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley.” How Alyssa Bereznak Covers Tech for The Ringer.

Hunter Walker

My undergrad degree was in history, but I always qualify it as “social history,” which to me means not just focusing on “names, dates, wars” (aka high school history) but understanding the past through stories. Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s 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. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Many of these returnees have worked in Silicon Valley and startups or went to school at MIT and Stanford.

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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. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Many of these returnees have worked in Silicon Valley and startups or went to school at MIT and Stanford.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. This has been a very welcome addition. I frequently hear critics saying, “yeah, but you can’t monetize on YouTube.”

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. Your name has come up a lot in that regard. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued. I wondered where he got his MBA from? It was signed Max Marmer.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

In Silicon Valley, most boards ultimately make decisions based on a consensus. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers. Patent Trolls.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Six years later, in 1886, her parents called upon Anne Sullivan, an experienced teacher of the blind, to help a seven-year old Helen learn to communicate in terms of names and letters. In that moment, language and naming “clicked” for Helen. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce?

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