ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
It wasn’t long ago that it made sense for companies, and especially Silicon Valley companies, to hire locally and have everyone working from one central location. Bandwidth sufficient for efficient communication was unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Real estate was relatively cheap.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 4, 2020
They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails. As a self-directed business owner, you have full control over what the business does next as well as how it operates and how it grows. If they don’t come through, who will?
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Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
In my first company, ESL , I sat in secure locations and taught complex intelligence gathering systems to a classroom of maintenance and/or operations students. High bandwidth, low noise. After a decade in Silicon Valley, I had finally learned to emulate empathy. It was all about the efficient transfer of knowledge.
Seeing Both Sides
DECEMBER 3, 2009
. The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was. Too few boards meet, confer and operate as a working unit without the CEO.
Agile VC
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Lots of us woke up this morning to an email from Reed Hastings about Netflix splitting it’s streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two separate operations (each w/ it’s own brand). 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.
infochachkie.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…).
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