Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

If youre used to pitching your company in a startup hub, like here in Silicon Valley, you may suffer from a debilitating disease: the inability to describe your product to normal people. Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you’re a Netflix subsriber with a mediocre bandwidth connection (DSL, esp in rural areas), DVD format will remain a must have for awhile. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Funded by military contracts, these 1950′s microwave tube startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. Why Electronics Intelligence?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). In the 20th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Funded by military contracts these 1950′s startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. far more huge companies in Silicon Valley. April 13, 2012. et al) were down on the peninsula.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2011

Well, as is the case with all software companies, the computers and bandwidth in the office were much better than the typical user's setup, so nobody saw the problem until we watched actual users in their natural environments. Laura Klein has been working in Silicon Valley as both an engineer and a UX professional for the last 15 years.

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