Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In that context, I was pleased to see the supporting message in a recent book, “ Fearless Innovation: Going Beyond the Buzzword ,” by Alex Goryachev. As an alternative, I usually recommend more incremental innovation , derived from recognized market changes, done on a regular basis, without the big-bang expectation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During my time in Silicon Valley, I was struck by the fact that most successful entrepreneurs seemed to personally know and regularly hear from all the “movers and shakers” who had the investment capital and leadership they needed. I’m a believer in the old saying that investors look for great people, more than great ideas.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bill’s closing line, “The reason why Silicon Valley is so successful is that it’s so fxxxng far away from Washington” received great applause. Tech Companies Use Regulatory Capture In my first two decades inside the Silicon Valley bubble we built products people wanted and needed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military. The prototype ELINT receivers built by the Applied Electronics Lab used the Stanford Traveling Wave Tubes.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2016

Tell All Books are nothing new and some of the most explosive ones of all time have already come from California (in and around Hollywood). The first was Dan Lyons book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble which is about his time at Hubspot. Ultimately, that is what disappointed me about each of the books.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2017

Once a Silicon Valley corporate lawyer and business executive, he was chosen by Steve Jobs to form part of the driving force behind the early and unanticipated success of the Pixar animation company. Yet Levy is far from the only Silicon Valley resident to turn to the spiritual path of one or more of the Eastern philosophies.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 16, 2018

I read Emily Chang’s book Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley the day it came out. While there are a handful of salacious stories (some of which were covered in excerpts that were pre-released), the overall arc of the book is extremely strong, well written, and deeply researched.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. I think the one thing that niggles me that most is reserving the word “startup” for only super-growth, Silicon Valley style businesses. Or pivoted too quickly. Not Google.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

“We need to be like Silicon Valley,” we hear many a startup community organizer around the world intone. After all, Silicon Valley been held up as a shining example as a hotbed for startups and many clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as a similar scene for innovation and technological entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money. A great business plan doesn’t have to be a book in length, with extensive financial statements.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

We don’t really talk about money in Silicon Valley. But she also eats organic blueberries and has too frequent Amazon deliveries of books, arts & crafts and Lego kits. At least not in public in a personal way with near strangers. I know I’ve got some reach for what I write, at least within a narrow community.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The company grew to be well known in this limited niche and was operating at slightly above breakeven, when the Board and CEO decided to seek venture investment from what we hoped would be a first tier VC firm in Silicon Valley. Not long after, the company was sold in a “fire sale” amounting to slightly less than the debt on the books.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2015

There has been a lull in the chanting that “Silicon Valley is the center of the tech universe.” Silicon Valley is a religion, just like Crossfit is a religion. This has stuck with me for a long time and I’ve read many posts about Silicon Valley through this lens. Losing My Religion.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

by Lisa Tener , award-winning book-writing and publishing coach, published author. Damaris Lasa, Chief Digital Marketing Science Instructor and Learning Consultant at Silicon Valley education startup Green Fig points out, “Evidence suggests people will remember information longer if you use visuals. Use Engaging Visuals.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has great weather and lifestyle, and nobody wants to leave.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money. A great business plan doesn’t have to be a book in length, with extensive financial statements.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Though the trend in the startup world seems to be relocating to Silicon Valley (a choice that some angel investors and ven­ture capitalists now call mandatory) and knocking on the doors of venture capital, this path doesn’t make sense for all businesses, and it’s not acces­sible to many entrepreneurs because of their life circumstances.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 18, 2010

And I read – a lot – a dozen books this time. As is my tradition when I come back on the grid, here are short book reviews with grades of what I read. Bright Boys : A+: This is how a computer history book should be written. Dick’s books. What Would Google Do : B+: Jeff Jarvis wrote a very good book on Google.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

This is why customers used to go to bigger travel agencies with online payment gateways to book their trips. However, these solutions don’t offer features to help streamline the entire booking process in addition to the payment process and charge high fees.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. All the usual caveats apply.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Their high value add model is one of the inspirations for Forward Partners so when I saw that former Summit Partners VC Peter Sims had written an analysis of how they are disrupting Silicon Valley I clicked straight through. I will shortly get to the reasons Peter gives for their success.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Shawn is currently he Director of Organizational Development and Workplace Trends at a Silicon Valley startup, Bluescape. Shawn Murphy has nearly 30 years of consulting experience and advising companies on implementing organizational change and culture change.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

I enjoy reading books written by people I know. I can always picture the person narrating the book, or hear their voice saying the words, I can periodically see their personality showing through the words on the page, and books bring out so much more detail than I’d ever get from a conversation.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

If Silicon Valley wasn’t a temporary phenomenon, then Britain would still be the centre of manufacturing. If Silicon Valley wasn’t a temporary phenomenon, then the Spinning Jenny would still be the most important tool of production. You should totally read my book – The Great Fragmentation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I’ve loved traveling to talk about the book and hearing what readers and supporters have to say and what their most pressing questions are. A few thing as we move into Week 2 of my book tour: I'm now in Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote The Startup Way. We’ve had an amazing first week following publication of The Startup Way.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2012

In fact, the crux of the book is that entrepreneurship is an endeavor that can be taught and refined. Unlike many of the authors in the entrepreneurial space, Ries doesn’t waste half his book on motivational fluff. While reading the book, my first impression was that the concepts generally seem geared towards technological companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

Renowned for her research on psychological safety and author of several acclaimed books, including The Fearless Organization, and the Science of Failing Well – winner of the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year. 19:15] Where can people connect with you, learn more about your work and pick a copy of your book?

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley was an Oxymoron A key premise of our new company was that our video compression and authoring technology would revolutionize how games were made and played. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2019

As someone who has experienced more than a few office cultures like the one described above, I’m here to tell you that the “work as hard as possible” ethos that seems pervasive — not just in Silicon Valley, but throughout much of the corporate world — is not just wrong, it’s counter productive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? His book — Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. But I, what I wanna do in the a book is tell entrepreneurs, you can't just dive into it. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21]

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Foreign visitors to Silicon Valley continually mention how willing we are to help, network and connect strangers. Engineers in the very small world of silicon and semiconductors would meet at the Wagon Wheel and swap technical problems and solutions with co-workers and competitors. It's the "Pay-It-Forward" culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

These initiatives are what Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn call “ The Reciprocity Advantage ” in their classic book on how partnerships must work in the future for innovation and growth.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. When a book is written about a particular subject, it usually is a signal that you might already be late to the game.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

These posts cover two distinct periods – the first, the rise of “ Microwave Valley ” chronicles the decade of 1946-1956 as Stanford University became the hub of military/industry contracting in the Bay Area. . In doing so he accidentally launched entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley – with the help of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. All the usual caveats apply.

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