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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. The third element you need is data.

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Why Even Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Need a Business Plan

Up and Running

The cast of “Silicon Valley” Image credit: HBO. Silicon Valley is a crazy place. I’ve opted not to return to the Valley for various reasons, but still have plenty of friends who work there and return regularly for business meetings. Peter fires back: “The algorithm is the product of the company!

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Algorithmic Bias

Start Up Blog

Algorithms are no different, and just like us, they are filled with bias. Algorithm – a word once confined to University mathematics departments and computer labs – now takes pride of place in every second tech news article, determines what you see online and why you received this email at 7am Australian Eastern Standard Time.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. If the decision was a bad call you can unwind it in a reasonable period of time. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Customer Development Fireside Chat

Steve Blank

I think customer feedback comes in a very unstructured manner, hence it is difficult to apply an algorithm on it. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley. And so you really have a log of software algorithmic stuff that is very, very difficult.”. That’s the dumbest thing you could try to do.

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Listen to Google — UX and SEO are a match made in heaven

The Next Web

The one is about some plumber jabbing away at their phone, while the other is about satisfying the algorithms of a company in Silicon Valley. And though initially the algorithms they used to get us there weren’t very good at that (and were easily gamed) as time goes on they’re… This story continues at The Next Web.

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